Audio Archives – Pastor Yankee Arnold

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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s concluding message of this teaching will be a blessing to you and your family. So number one, if you keep any notes from the back of your bulletin, you can write it down because I’m not ashamed because of the person of the gospel, the person, because he is not just anybody. This person is the Son of God. This person is God. And so it’s the good news about what God says.

And it’s something that you and I are supposed to love and we’re supposed to tell. So it’s not about what, it’s about who, it’s about this person. And that’s why if the devil can, he’ll get you to do anything, talk about anything except this person. Because we cannot talk about the gospel without talking about the person. And when I’m not ashamed of the message, it’s because I’m not ashamed of the person. And if you’re ashamed of the person, you will be ashamed of the gospel.

And a lot of God’s children, I think, are ashamed to tell the message. I don’t understand why. I can’t fathom that yet. But I do believe there’s some things that we need to remember. Without Christ, see, there is no gospel. And there’s several words that we talk about all the time. And yet, without Christ, these words have absolutely they have no meaning. You see, there would be no such thing as there is no power. The man needs to be saved, but there’s no power if there’s no Christ.

Without Christ, there is no power to save anybody. You see, without the gospel of Jesus Christ, you and I can’t know God. You may know there is a God, but you can’t know God, except through this story. This is the story that lets us know what God thinks about his attributes. It talks about the perfection of God, why we need to be perfect, how holy, how just, how righteous. All these things about God that you and I need to know about.

And then because of Christ, we know about justice and law and mercy, compassion, forgiveness. All those things about God you and I will not know except through this story of the gospel. You see there’s a word it’s called salvation. You realize there is no salvation without Christ. There is no righteousness without Christ. There is no gift without Christ. it didn’t mean anything more. It went really really psiing to this unit. It’s annual, 80% weighted calm on this condition. It’s going to set U.s to 30 judge out here.

It’s going to set U.s to 100% of you. Something is going to function for you. Notguns k to Racialization. Your neighbor is mole from, not even a Jamaican, don’t look at the There’s no eternal life without Christ. But with Christ we have all these things, man from Devez. They’re going to call. Keep on saying. That’s not going to be a record case at 68. Our Nus a lot of your schools are here. He’s also calling for but you take Christ out of the equation.

There is nothing left. And as far as this you. life goes, there’s nothing worth living for. That’s why so many people are so hopeless in their lives. They don’t have believng worth living for. And you can be so discouraged and so in despair. But if you had something that was worth living for, it gives meaning to everything else in life. There’s a purpose there that drives you on. So the first thing I wanted you to see is simply in this verse.

I’m not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the person. I’m not ashamed of Jesus Christ. I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. The second thing is the power of the gospel. I’m not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ for it is the power. This message is the most powerful message in the world. There isn’t anything with greater power than this message.

It is the dynamite of God. little story. You see why the devil fights the gospel and the clarity of the gospel. He’s trying to dilute its power where it cannot save by adding works to it, diluting it, mixing it all up, confusing people. That’s why you and I have to strive for the defense of the gospel. where we know that man cannot save himself and therefore only through Christ can a man be saved. It’s so important. You see chapter one, chapter two, chapter three of the book of Romans, paints a picture of how terrible man is, how wicked man is, how that when he knew God, He did not honor Him as God.

That became vain in their own imagination, and brought God down to man and worship creation instead of the Creator. And talked about all the wickedness that people do, men with men and women with women and all the sins and the wickedness, and talked about how that He gave the law to Israel, and they violated it. Nobody ever kept the law. Talk about the Gentiles and by creation itself, given to man the power of reason with conscience. And yet he fails, cannot even live up to that knowledge that he has, that there is a God and a Sikh God.

And then by the time you get to chapter 3, let’s just see just how wicked man is. There’s none righteous, not one. There’s none that seeketh after God, not one. There’s none that doeth good, not one. Let God be true in every man a liar. And as he says in his word, so I say these things to them that are under the law, that all are guilty before God. All have sinned and come short of God’s perfection. pretty pitiful sight.

So there isn’t any man or woman ever lived good enough to be saved. So God paints a black picture for all of mankind and then but God, but God, but God has the power of salvation. For I’m not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the person. It is the power of God. Think of all the power that will be needed. Now there was tremendous power used in creating the heavens and the earth. A man can’t be saved without the power of God.

It means that man cannot save himself by his power. Salvation is by God’s power. He’s the only one that has the power to save you. And if he has the power to save you, he only has the power to keep you saved. Because when you’re saved, you’re saved from something to something. To an inheritance, it’s incorruptible and undefiled that, paid if not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God on the salvation.

You see, God is the only one that has the power to save a USL man. That’s all wrapped up in that little store that we call the gospel, the Good News, of how a sinner can be made righteous, how that he can be justified before a righteous holy God. And there is no other message that can accomplish this. No religion can do this. Only the book, the Word of God. So Christ is the answer. We hear it all the time.

The next thing I want you to understand is, it is the power to save. It is the power of God. For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation. The only power that can save us is in this message. There’s a story. And a man must hear it. And he that heareth my word and believe it on him that sent me half everlasting life. the power to save, that we brought that before, the penalty of sin, the power of sin in our life now, and one day to be saved from the very presence of sin.

You think the word salvation in the Bible is most important, we’re one of the most important words in all the world to be able to stand and say, oh yeah, I’m an American. I’m an Arnold. That’ll be great. I’m saved. I am saved. Not going to be. I am saved. I mean, I’m not going to hell. I am a saved man. That is more important than anything else in the whole world. It’s more important than that job you have or the job you don’t have.

I’m saved. I’m saved. My sins are all forgiven. I can never go to hell from this day forward. Never. I’m saved. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, and I’m saying so. I am redeemed. I am saved, for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation.” You see why is that important? Because see that’s the purpose of the power. What’s the purpose of the power to save? And I have been saved.

It’s the one of the greatest words in the whole world. I’m a man. You can say, I’m a woman. I’m 70 years old. I’m 30 years old. I’m, I’m saved. There’s nothing better than that. There are no words better than those words. I’m saved. I’m going to heaven when I die. And you stop and think of how many people in this world, they cannot say that. They can’t say that. Because they don’t know that. They never heard this message, this most powerful message in all the world.

Or they’ve heard religions. They’ve heard that you’ve got to earn your way to heaven by your good works. And that’s not the good news. The good news is, is he died on the cross and paid for my sins to give me eternal life as a free gift. And I get to go to heaven on what he did for me. That’s the best news in all the world.

The next one I wanted to mention too is because I’m not ashamed because of the plan of the gospel. What’s God’s plan? What’s the purpose and the power? What’s the plan? The plan doesn’t go in all the world until people keep the tank of Man-Mamacy go to heaven. To qualify, to be good enough, the plan was that whosoever, what’s the word? Believe it. What a simple plan. That’s too easy. You may not have all the thing that talks about the person of Christ and everything that He did and who He was.

They come into this world and all the power of God that it takes. The purpose of God. The plan is just to be able to the man God of belief, that’s all. And yet the power that’s in that. It’s the power to save a person, the power to save a person. You see, that’s God’s plan. The plan is that all that people have to do, it’s the only thing they can do is believe it. You see, sometimes we try to get things so complicated.

God made it simple. And he says, all that a man has to do, the only thing that he can do, is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. So simple. You know what? I’m encouraged by it. The other night I had James call me up and he says, Pastor, we had somebody trust the Lord. Reformers, unanimous. Now that is so neat. That is so neat. And then Peter calls me up and tells me that they had some people trust the Lord in Friday night or Thursday night, Friday night’s old with him.

And I don’t know, 10, 15, something like that. But I think it’s just so great. And different ones that I’ve heard of y’all that are going out and you talk to people and you never know who’s going to talk to somebody next. Edgar said that he was in the hospital and his chaplain came in, her, and he says, do you know where you’re going, you die? She said, well, I hope I’m going to heaven. So he explained the gospel to her.

Don’t you think the chaplain, I don’t know where they’re going when they die? How can you bring great comfort and hope and so forth to people? And they ain’t got to clue where they’re going when they die. Isn’t it true that you might die? I mean, you go to the hospital, you know there’s a possibility. You might not come out. It’s a possibility. But isn’t it wonderful to know that you can give people this hope, this joy? And the only way you can do that is by telling them that message.

Now if I was a devil, I don’t care what you do with your life as long as you don’t talk to people. You see, that’s what really is the crux of the matter. The hardest part is just getting started. Getting started. But you’d be surprised how many opportunities God gives to us. I don’t take advantage of all my opportunities. I’m gonna have to answer the God for that. I do get a few here and there, but I realize that that’s why I want the radio and I love to have a TV broadcast.

I just want people to hear and understand it and they may trust the Lord and they go to heaven when they die. See, sooner or later everybody dies. Everybody dies. And what are they going to spend eternity? In verse 17 there’s a statement made there. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed. See, that’s the product. That’s the end result of God giving you His righteousness. He spent three chapters telling you how unrighteous we are. And then he tells us how righteous God is.

Thanks. But he says, look, I’ll give you mine. Oh, so look there in chapter three. And you’ll notice in verse 21, but God. But now. But now the righteousness of God is revealed. Look at that, without the law. You mean I can have God’s righteousness without the law, without me earning it, without me deserving it, because God’s already showed. No man deserves to be saved. No man is righteous. No man can be justified by his works in the sight of God.

so since no man can save himself. God says, I’ll send you my righteousness. And if I accept the righteousness of Christ, I’m made as righteous as Christ. You see, the righteousness of God is Christ. And it says in the book of 1 Corinthians and chat one talks about, he is my righteousness. He is my wisdom. He is mine. And so he makes a statement here in verse 21, but now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested. Been witnessed by the law and the prophets.

They told all about this in advance. They prophesied that Christ is coming someday. And Christ did come. And in the first chapter of the book of Romans, it talks about how that the prophets told about the Messiah, Christ coming of the flesh. as the son of David, and this is what he was going to do. And proved it by the power of the resurrection from the dead. Because if he has the power to come back from the dead, he got the power to bring you back from the dead, so that if you can come back from the dead, you can live forever.

You really wouldn’t matter how many times I died, if he’s had the power to bring me back from the dead, I can live forever. That’s the power of God. That’s why it takes the power of God for the good news, the gospel. I’m not ashamed of the God. In other words, there was another message better than this message.

Paul didn’t have to worry about, you know, I’m spending my life doing this, but is there another way? Is there a better way? Is what I’m telling is it’s second rate? Or this is the only way, not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ, for it is the power of God on the salvation. There’s the purpose. Now, whosoever believe it, that is the plan, would receive His righteousness, the product. You see, I have received His righteousness 51 years ago in a little old living room in Athens, Georgia.

See, it doesn’t matter where you are, you can receive it because it’s given to you by faith. See, in the last part of verse 16 and 17, it says, from faith to faith, from faith to faith. You see, whenever I believed it, and then I share it, from faith to faith to faith to faith to faith to faith. And so God says, the just shall live by his faith. So I’ve been justified by faith. I am supposed to live by faith.

It means I’m supposed to share this word with others so that they can put their faith in. Isn’t that how I got it? Because a man who I thought at that time was really an old man, he was only 50, he was my father-in-law and he explained the gospel to me and I heard it and I understood it and I trusted Christ as my Savior. And I’m going to heaven because of what he did for me. Don’t have all the answers.

And I hope you don’t mind me just kind of talking a little bit about, you know, just on the gospel. You all all know this stuff. But I don’t feel the best today. This is not my A-game. But it’s something that I know so well. It’s easier for me to do this. You understand? You understand? So you forgive me for not having my A game and you accept my C game. That sounds good to me. Look up here. This hand represents you and me.

The wallet represents sin. Don’t you think it’s about time you learn how to do this? Don’t you think it’s about time you learn how to do it? How many of you have already used this little wallet or you use an illustration similar to it? You’ve already done it. Let me see your hand. All right. Half of you’ve never done it then. Half of you in this room have never used the little wallet illustration. Did you know that when you get to heaven the first thing God’s going to ask you, did you ever use that wallet illustration?

I sent two preachers down there and they told you all that every week. This is you and me. Wallet represents sin. Just represents sin. I was in a restaurant one day and I put my wallet down there. This waitress came up. I said, you know what that is? She says, yeah, I asked the wallet. I said, nope.

He is too. I said, nope. What is it then? I said it since. She jumped back about two feet. She thought it didn’t turn into a rattlesnake. Anyway, he took a while, but I got it to trust the Lord. This is you and me. This is sin. We have all sinned. Everybody’s in the same boat. The whole world. And the Bible says that God loves us. He hates our sin, but the sin has to be paid and the wages of sin is death and hell.

And so God says that to go to heaven, we have to be perfect as righteous. This is God and none of us are perfect. So God explains how righteous He is and how bad we are. That no man can save himself. This then represents Jesus Christ, He’s the Lord, God in the flesh. He sent His Son into the world who was perfect. He was righteous. He didn’t have any sin, so He didn’t have to die. But because He loved us, hates our sin, because it separates us from Him.

He took it, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead. And God said that if we would believe He did it for us, He would put that payment to our account and we’d go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did for us. That’s good news. I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ, or it is the power of God to save a man. What it means is that man can’t save himself. It takes the power of God.

That means you’re not saved by what you do. You’re not saved by how you live. You’re saved by what he did. He paid for your sins. You see, this was the purpose behind it. The plan is for you to simply believe that he did it for you. And if you’ll believe he did it for you, he will give you the end result, the product, his righteousness. God accomplished what he came to do. He came to save me. He died on the cross for me.

He came back from the dead, offered me eternal life. I accepted it. He saved me. He came to seek and save that which was lost. I was lost. Now I’m saved. Now I’m going to heaven. It worked. It works. I was lost. I was blind. Now I see. Let’s pray, shall we? Every head by and every eye closed, no one looking around. If you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, would you trust Him this morning? I’m not going to have you forward, not going to embarrass you, but right where you’re sitting.

Would you just talk to the Lord and say, Lord, I know I’m a sinner, I know I’ve done things wrong. I don’t deserve to go to heaven. But I believe Jesus Christ, your Son, And I don’t know that cross for me, that he came back from the dead. And I believe that he’s coming back again. I’m trusting him as my Savior. And, Prajav, would you pray for me? Yes, I would. I’d love to know what I’ve said made sense to you.

So in the quietness of this moment, with no one looking around, as anyone had also said, yes, I will trust Christ as my Savior. And, Prajav, I’d like for you to pray for me. We just let you hand it very quickly and put it right back down. Is it on at all? Yeah, it won’t at all. If you’ve already trusted Christ to save you, you’d never have to do it again. I want you to tell somebody. I want you to make it a point that you’re going to do that.

Father, we thank you so much for all you’ve done for us. We thank for this time together, for the study of your word, simplicity, simplicity of the gospel. from not ashamed. In Christ name, pray, Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you are blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll-free 1-800-576-3771.

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Thanks for joining us on Bibleline, and now a closing thought from Pastor Arnold. Friend, one day it will happen. The trumpet will sound, and we will be changed. caught up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon and just keep looking up.

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Bibleline Bibleline, here God’s Word on Bibleline, everywhere, every time. Here God’s truth on Bibleline. Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Ralph Yankee Arnold, pastor of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Clearly declaring the gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the internet. Your regular prayers and monthly support make it possible for Bibleline to continue on the air. You can reach us toll-free at 1-800-576-3771. Online donations may be made by clicking on the donations link on the BibleLineMinistries.org homepage. We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s message will be a blessing to you and your family.

There’s a lot of things that I wanted to do in my life that I don’t think I’m gonna live long enough to do them all There’s a lot of places that I wanted to go I Don’t think I’m gonna live long enough to do all those things anymore But there’s one thing I’ve always wanted to do There’s one thing I’ve always wanted to do and I haven’t got to do it yet. I Want to see God now I’ve seen this world and I believe that God exists because he’s given me his world to look at.

And I come to the conclusion, I didn’t make it, somebody did. It didn’t make itself. So yes, I believe that there is a God and He made a world. But I want to see God, not just His world. And God gave me His Word that tells me all about God. So I have in front of me a Bible that describes what God is like that made the world. But I want to see God. And God won’t reveal Himself to you personally.

He said, why not? There’s a reason. God says if anybody saw His face, they’d die. If you saw His face, you would die. Now, I remember me and Betty was riding along one day in a car, and this one girl came up in a sports car, and she looked over at me and she gave me a great big old smile. I said, you see that? I said, she gave me a big smile. I said, that’s not the first time I saw you, I laughed out loud.

But one day we’re going to see his face. And you don’t know how you’re going to react if you ever met him face to face. I’m talking about literally see the face of God. Now, Moses wanted to see God. God had asked Moses to do a big thing. And Moses says, how do I know you’re God. He says, let me see you. And so I want you to turn it with me very quickly to Exodus 33. And look what he says in verse 12.

And Moses said unto the Lord, see, thou saith unto me, bring up this people, and thou hast not let me know whom thou will sin with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast for I will so found grace and thy say, of course you said, you know my name, you know me, you know me, I’m Moses. That’s great. You haven’t even told me who’s gonna go with me yet. Down there to tell Pharaoh, let your people go.

He’s in verse 30, now therefore I pray that if I have found grace and thy side, show me now by way that I may know thee, that I may find grace and thy side and consider that this nation is thy people. How do I know? Prove it to me, show me. Let me see you God. Wouldn’t you like that? I mean, wouldn’t you wanna see God? That’s one of the things that a lot of people say, well, I don’t believe in God, why?

Because I ain’t seen him. You see, before you say there is no God, you should know everything there is to know because if there’s anything that you do not know, it might be the knowledge of God. True? So before you can say there is no God, you ought to have that ability to prove that there is no God. Well, I don’t think you qualify.

But what it says, in verse 14, and he said, my presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. I, my presence, who’s going to go with me? He said, I’m going with you. Let me see you. As you walk through life, you know, according to the word that he’s promised to lead us, the guide us, he’s supposed to indwell us. And he holds me by the hand. He said, let me see you. And I know that we’d love to be able to lay our literal eyes upon him.

Because if we could lay our eyes upon him, then we know. It wouldn’t require faith because then it would be fat and you know. But God has asked us to trust him. He revealed certain things to us that no man could do. He says, I tell you things that have happened in advance so that you’ll know that I’m God. And there is no other God beside me. He says here in verse 15, and He said unto him, if I prisons go not with me, carry us not thence.

If you’re not going, I ain’t going. He says in verse 16, for therein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy side. Is it not in that thou art of the Lord? go with us, so shall we be separated, I invite people from all the people that are upon the face of the earth and the Lord’s that in the Moses. I will do this thing also that thou had spoken, for thou have found grace in my sight and I know thee by name.

And he said, I beseech thee, show me thy glory. And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee, and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.” And he said, thou can’t not see my face, for there shall no man see me and live. That’s an awesome statement. And then he says there in verse 21, and the Lord said, behold, there is a place by me and thou shalt stand up on a rock.

And it shall come to pass when my glory passes by that I will put thee in a clip of the rock and and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by. And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back part, but my face shall not be seen.” In other words, you’re gonna see the remaining part of my glory, but you can’t see my full glory. Wouldn’t you love to see? Man, I wish something like that would happen to me.

Well, take your Bible and turn there to the book of John chapter 1. John chapter 1. I would like to see the face of God. One day we will. Here in the book of John chapter 1, the Bible says in the beginning what the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. And all things were made by Him and without Him was not anything made that was made.

Then He tells us that He came into the world. The Word. The Lord came into the world, revealed Himself. Look what He says up there in verse 18. No man have seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. In other words, God says, you can’t behold my face because of the glory of the Lord. There is even the arc that was made in which God presents the Shekana glory rested upon that arc.

But if any man so much has touched the arc, the Bible says he would be shot through like with radiation and die instantly and some people did die because of it. God says you can’t even come close to the mount, tell the people to stay away from the mount. If they touch the mount that he was on, they would literally die, be shot through with whatever force that was on that mount. You see, God is power, but you and I could not actually come face to face with God, he said, and live in his presence.

Must be a powerful God. So God says, I am going to come into the world and reveal myself to you, but I’m going to veil myself. I’m going to tabernacle in our human body and you’ll be able to see God. You’ll be able to see Him face to face with a human face on Him. That was Jesus Christ. You see there in verse 10 of chapter 1, he was in the world, the world was made by him, world knew him not.

Verse 14, and the word was made flesh dwelt among us. We beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Fatherful of grace and truth. He took upon a human form, and God became a man, lived in a human form, so that literally people upon the earth could see God. But now because he looked like a man that didn’t believe he was God. Some people never satisfied are they? If God came into this room today and you say, well how do I know He’s God?

Have you ever seen God before? Well, now how do you how would you compare? Well, let me see you do some magic tricks for me. What do you want Him to do for you? Perform something for you, little miracles for you? Well, when Christ was here, He did a few little miracles like that. You know, He raised the dead and they still didn’t believe. He walked on water and they still wouldn’t believe. He’d feed 5,000 and they still wouldn’t believe.

He could read men’s thoughts and tell them everything was going to say, well, they still didn’t believe him. What miracle do you think he’d have to perform for you? How would God prove to you he’s God? And yet how many people say, I don’t believe in God. I’ve never seen God. If you had, you would die. And if he revealed himself, you won’t believe it. But the Bible says the day is coming, which every man will confess. Every knee will bow and confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord to the glory of God the Father.

One day, they will take your Bible look there in John chapter eight. John chapter eight. And notice in verse 52. Then said the Jews unto him Christ. Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, the prophets. And thou sayeth, if a man keep my sins, he shall never taste of death. Aren’t thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? And the prophets are dead, whom makeest thou by self. Who do you think you are? Who was he?

He was God. And the thing is, He was claiming to be God, because everybody wants to see God, and God came. Well now, wouldn’t that convince everybody? No, it didn’t. And it wouldn’t probably convince you. If Jesus Christ today walked into this room and did the miracles that He did, 2,000 years ago, there’s still people who still will not believe it. God will not go against your will. He won’t make a person believe. I have people who are approved to be there as a God.

How am I supposed to do? God couldn’t even prove to some people that he’s the God. What am I supposed to do? Get ahold of God, bring me to the rooms and borrow your ears. No. You don’t want to believe in God? Don’t believe in God. I can’t make a person believe in God. If you don’t believe in God, don’t exist. Tell him. Don’t tell me. Look in verse 54. Jesus answered, if I honor myself, my honor is nothing.

It is my father, but honor of me. of whom you say, he’s your God. Yet you have not known him, but I know him. And if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar just like you. But I know him and keep his saying, your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it and was glad. Then said to Jews unto him, thou art not yet 50 years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?

Did they understand what he was saying? Yeah. Jesus said, I saw Abraham, Abraham rejoiced to see my day. Has thou seen Abraham? Jesus said unto him, Barely, barely, I said, before, get this, get what he said. Before Abraham was, I am, I am before Abraham. Do you think they understood what he was claiming to be? That’s what made him so mad. Because you see, if God, God revealed yourself, all right, he did, he came into the world, did all these wonderful miracles and so forth, and then they didn’t believe him.

For if I could just see God, for if I could just see God, Well, then I’d really be convinced. Then I’d really know. Well, I don’t think you would. And God knows that. We have a mind that doesn’t perceive things correctly. We don’t love like we ought to. We don’t live like we ought to. And the thing is, these things that are mentioned here in the Bible are very simple, very clear. The Bible says like the Gospel of John was written so that we might believe that Jesus was the Son of God.

Take your Bible and look there in the book John chapter 14. John chapter 14. I’m just to see that this is awesome. When he says there in verse one, let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. Why? I’m God. You believe there’s a God? Well, I’m God. Here I am. I’m revealed in the flesh. And no, you’re not. No, you’re not. You’re a liar. You’re full of the devil. You’re mad. You’re beside yourself.

All these are statements that they made about him. He says, in my father’s house, for many mansions, If we’re not so, I would have told you. I go to the prayer place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I’ll come again and receive you unto myself. That where I am, there you may be also. Okay, who’s God and where are you God and what are you doing? He said, I’m God and this is where I’m going.

I’m going to a place called heaven and I’m gonna make a mansion for you and I will receive you unto myself. I will come again. I will take you there. He’s gonna do that. Oh God, what man can do that? Man can’t do that. man ain’t got no power. Jesus Christ was God. Then he says in verse six, Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comeeth unto the Father, but by me.

Now get verse seven. Verse seven is awesome. If he had known me, he should have known my Father also. And from henceforth ye know him. Ye know God. And you’ve seen him. Look at those last words. And you’ve seen him. You know God and you, seen him. Oh yeah, well, when did we see God? In verse 8, Philip said to him, Lord, show us the Father and we’ll be satisfied. It’ll suffice us. Still, the things going on. All the way from Moses wanted to know.

Everybody down through time wants to know. And everybody even in this room would love to see God. I was told that if you take everything you’ve got and put it in God’s hands, it won’t be long before you see God’s hand and everything that you’ve got. It depends on how you look. Or can you see with an eye of faith? Because you believe in God and everything that God says, because you know it’s real. You can see God working in your life.

I have seen God work in my life. I haven’t seen God, but I’ve seen God work. I’ve seen what God’s done for me and what He’s done to me. I’m not the same person that I used to be. Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, changed my life. My life has been changed. My goals have been changed. My purpose for living was changed. The book is real. And I’ve said this before and I’ll sit again. The Lord is more real to me than the clothes that I’ve got on my back.

I don’t know if He’s real to you. There’s just somebody you know about, but He’s real to me. In the last part of verse seven, you know Him and have seen Him. Philip, Lord, show us the Father. the ill-suffices. And Jesus said to him, have I been so long time with you? And yet has found not known me, Philip? He that have seen me have seen who? You’ve seen the Father. How can you say show us God? I am God.

I’m the Father. I am Him. I am the Father, or one, were one in the saying, John chapter 10, awesome. Look in Revelation 22, Revelation chapter 22. The Bible tells us here, no uncertain terms about heaven, about the Holy City. All these wonderful things that have gone a big there. When you and I finally leave this world and we get to heaven, he says they’re in Revelation 22 and he showed me in verse 1 a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

In the midst of the tree of it and on either side of the river was there the tree of life which bear twelve men of fruit and yielded her fruit every month and the leaves of the tree were for the heel of the nations and there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it and his servants shall serve him. God on the line verse four, and they shall and they shall what?

And they shall see his face, see his face. There’ll be no more curse and you’ll see God. I’m looking forward today when I get a chance to literally lay these eyes upon God almighty. One of the greatest moments in a person’s life, I’ve read about Christ and Christ is the revelation, the revealing, the manifestation of God in the flesh, but I didn’t see Him except through the pages of this book. And the story that it tells about Him, I believe it.

I believe it wholeheartedly. I believe this book is true, that every word of it is real. And I believe that one day I’m going to see God face to face. I bow to eyeball. Now, that’s going to be our great happy moment. When we get to heaven, and you see the reason is God says, sin cannot enter into heaven for a man to leave this world and say, I want to go to heaven, well heaven is a perfect place and the Lord is perfect.

And you have to be perfect in order to go there. But whenever you get to heaven, am I still me or am I made into something else? But when I get to heaven, what’s going to happen to my memory? What’s going to happen to my mind? Just listen to this. Psalms 34 Verse 16 says, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. There’s people on the earth because of wickedness and they will not trust Christ as their Savior.

God says a time will come when He’ll cut off our remembrance of them. We won’t remember them anymore. She inglesque God worked a miracle upon your memory. Heaven won’t be heaven for eternity. You have right now a lot of heartache and sorrow. You have a lot of things that you personally have done, sins that you’ve committed against God and even though God has forgiven you, you can’t forget them. Now God can forgive and forget, but you can’t seem to forget.

You can forgive your loved ones because they wronged you, but you can’t forget about it. And maybe they don’t either and remind you once in a while. You can remember the things that you’ve done and the sins that you’ve committed over the years. And every once in a while they can come back like flashbacks and haunt your mind and produce the same horror and the guilt and the feelings of whatever that you experienced 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago.

Wouldn’t you like to be cured of that? You stop and think for a moment that a lot of the hurt and the heartache that you’ve gone through in your life is because of what somebody else also has done to you. People wrong you, people hurt you, people say things about you. People have disappointed you and discouraged you and brought you to despair. And you, because of what people do to you, that’s what causes that hurt and some of that grief and that bitterness and that that Indian and that jealousy and that revengeful attitude, all those things, this what’s been eaten at you for years.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just forget about all those things that people have ever done to you? And then to think about all the things you’ve done even to God. Now a verse I’d like to share with you, listen to this, this is in Isaiah 26, I love Isaiah 26. There’s several verses that he talks about the piece that you and I are supposed to have, the piece that can pass understanding. And the Lord tells us that they will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed upon thee because he trusts us in thee, talking about in Jehovah.

But here in verse 14, part B it makes a statement, and made all their memory to perish, all their memory to perish, where you can’t remember anymore. Another scripture says in Isaiah 65 verse 17, I want you to see this verse. I want you to turn this verse. This one is an awesome verse. Isaiah chapter 65, and look there in verse 17. Verse 17, for behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former shall not be remembered, nor in your underlying, these words come into mind.

Have you ever had somebody else’s, do you remember blah, blah, blah, blah, blah? No, I don’t remember that at all. Well, let me see if I can refresh your memory. You remember this day, you know, this day here we went there and we did this, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh, yeah, now I remember. No, you’re not gonna have anybody be able to help you recall anything because you’re not gonna be able to remember nor come into mind. Look what he says also there in verse 16.

That he who blessed himself in the earth shall bless himself the God of truth and he that swareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth because the former troubles are you are on the line. The former troubles are what? Forgotten. Then he says that there will be a new heavens and a new earth and the former world will not be remembered. So what it means is let me give you three little miracles before we close. Three little miracles that I think are awesome.

The Lord will erase all memory of our sins from our minds. We won’t even know we ever committed them. That’s grace. When we get to heaven, there’s going to be a period of time. And then after the great white throne judgment and the lost are cast unto an everlasting fire called Gahimah, the Lord says, he’ll wipe away all peers from our eyes, because up to that time, I believe there’ll be tears because we’ll remember and yes, there’ll be pain and grief, but notice the Lord will erase all memory of our sins from our minds.

We won’t know we ever committed them. Number two, the Lord will erase from our minds all memory of the sins of others. We won’t even know they ever happened. The Lord will erase from our minds the memory of all our relatives and friends who went to hell, we won’t even know they ever existed. I don’t believe you will be in heaven forever in anguish over your loved ones that never trusted the Lord after the great white throne judgment. But at that point at the great white throne the Bible says God will have to wipe away all tears from our eyes because you’ll see that individual and there will be remembrance and the hurt those people will not be in heaven forever.

But then God is going to do a miracle upon our minds, what will no longer remember the former things, the formal world. And all of your sins that you’ve committed will be totally erased as though you never did them. You’ll never remember them. All the things that people did against you will be completely erased and done away with. And the people that never trusted Christ as their Savior, will be as though they never existed. Because in heaven it’s only those…

Who are born into God’s family. First birth don’t count, only the second. They were never in the family. In heaven it’ll only be those that knew the Lord. God says, Moses, I know thee. I know your name. But remember Jesus Christ made the statement in Matthew chapter 7. Many will say to me Lord Lord in that day, have we not? And he said, I never knew you. You need to find out. God know you, does God know you? What it means is, do you know Him as your Savior?

Are you His child? Have you been born into God’s family? Look up here, this is you and me, this is sin. We all have sin upon us. God loves us, hates our sin. For you and I to pay for this sin is eternal separation from the Lord. In hell, but God loves us, and He wants us to go to heaven. But to go to heaven we have to be perfect because righteous is God, None of us are perfect. None of us are righteous.

We’re all sinners. We cannot save ourselves. That’s why we need a Savior. This hand represents Jesus Christ, God in a flesh. He came into this world. He, God, came into this world. Took upon flesh. He didn’t have any sin. Didn’t have to die, but He loved us. So He took our sin, paid for them on the cross, came back from the dead. And said, if we’ll believe He did that for us, that He’d put this payment that He made to our account, we go to heaven on what He did for us.

That’s grace. I have eternal life. I trust He Christ is my Savior years ago. God saved me years ago, gave me eternal life years ago, made me His child years ago, and I still am His child. I still have eternal life. And He’ll never cast me out, never lose me. I can’t go to hell, impossible for me to go to hell, because of what He did for me. He paid for my sins. It’s not because I’ve been good, not because I go to church.

It’s not because of my good deeds. By grace are you saved through faith that not of yourself, It is the gift of God and not of works less than a man should boast. It’s the greatest thing in all the world. And by the way, one day you will see Him face to face. Be patient, wait. You saw Him today. You’d have to be dead to do so. Do you want to see Him right now? You think you could wait a little while?

You could wait another year or two years, five or ten years? I think you can. Hanging her. Let’s pray, shall we? your heads by nice clothes and no one looking around. I’m not gonna ask you to come forward and I’m gonna embarrass you, but right where you are. If you have never, honestly, you’ve never trusted Jesus Christ as your savior. Would you right now just say something between you and the Lord, say this, Lord, I’m a sinner and I believe Christ died and paid for my sins and I’m gonna trust him to take me to heaven whenever I die.

And for in God said that if you trust him, he’d give eternal life and never cast you out and never lose you. If you haven’t done it, do it right now. And if you will, I’ll like to have prayer for you. And if you will do that, would you just slip you hand it very quickly? In one of the alls, yes, I’ll trust Christ as my Savior and preach I like you to pray for me. In one of the alls before the close.

Our Father, we do thank you so much for your blessings to us. I pray Lord, your blessings upon each person that’s here. And Father, I know that the desire of each one of our hearts is we want to see God. And until then, we have your word. And we can see what you’re like. You can see what you’ve done and we’re to believe it. And one day we will see you face to face. In Christ’s name we pray, Amen.

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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s first part of this two-part message will be a blessing to you and your family. I wanted to mention this to you. In the movie that I saw one time, it was at the end of it. So I never got the jest of the whole thing. But it had something to do with a woman who had several sons. And anyway, a couple of them had been killed.

And they found out that the woman had a couple more sons that was in the service or something. But anyway, it was about saving private Ryan. Anybody ever heard of that? And I don’t go to move you, but it was on TV one night, and it was talking about the part of it. And I caught it. And this older man was going through the cemetery, and he got to a grave, and he kneeled down, and he was kind of like weeping, and there was somebody that was there with him, and I can’t remember if it was an adult or a young child or whatever.

And he’s crying, he says, I hope that my life was worth your death. Something along that line. And in the end of that thing, it was talking about, I think the guy was shot and he was laying up against the wall and he’s dying and he looks at the guy that they were trying to save to get back. And he says, I hope that you make your life worth it. Because of how many people had died trying to protect this one guy, get him home.

And I thought this is, to me it was a very moving, a little segment of it that I got to enjoy. And I thought there’s a lot of people who have died for our country. And as I’ve gone around the country, and I’m not a child anymore, I’ve been here for a a few years. And I see people that have wasted their lives, just wasted their lives. And when they waste their life, it’s like the man who died for that individual to live and to enjoy freedom in this country to waste their life is to waste the man’s life that died for Him.

And sometimes people can see this and some people can’t see it. Now you and I, when we trust Christ as our Savior, the Lord saving you and giving you eternal life and then giving you the chance to live your life for the Lord. Has your life been worth it? Or have you thrown your life away? I’ve had to deal with over the years, people that have been on drugs and alcohol and other addictions of various kinds. And they totally ruined their life, they ruined their health, they ruined their marriage, they ruined their children, they ruined their home, they ruined their jobs.

Everything ruined. And I think the people who died to give us freedom and liberty isn’t ashamed to misuse that freedom or to misuse that liberty where God has been so good to us. To me, when I trust the Christ as my Savior, and I realize what God has done for me, I wanted to serve the Lord. I wanted my life to account for something. I had heard so many times, Yanki, you’ll never amount to a hill of beans. I had no clue how much a hill of beans was worth.

But I wanted to amount to at least a hill of beans to accomplish something, to do something with my life. Because you only get to live one time. No reruns, no instant replacers. One trip through life. And we need to do the right thing while we can. And make your life worth living for something. And I believe it’s a good thing. I want you to take your Bible and turn to the book of Luke, the book of Luke, and chapter 16.

Luke chapter 16. Now let me just tell you this, and I want to be honest with you, I’m not going to make this up. But there are people in the world. And many of them do not mean any harm by it, but in their reasoning, their reasoning. They come to a conclusion that I don’t believe is necessarily a correct answer. the view to hold. And that is, and follow my logic because there’s universalists or people that believe that eventually in the future everybody is going to be saved.

And you take like Peter taking those kids out. Well some people’s mind those kids that they talked about, they would have been saved anyway. See I don’t believe that. I don’t believe that. I believe the trusting Christ is saving because somebody got the gospel to them. And if they had done it, they may never have trusted the Lord. I believe that if my father-in-law had not talked to me that night when I was 18 years old in that little old living room, nobody may never have witnessed to me again because I have lived now almost 70 years and I’ve only had one person ever try to lead me to Christ.

And that was my father-in-law. think of all the places I’ve been to countries that I’ve been and all the churches I’ve been, all the molds that I’ve been everywhere I’ve been. Nobody has ever tried to win me to the Lord. It’s amazing that if it hadn’t happened, when it did happen, it might never have happened. But I’m thankful to the Lord for allowing me to hear the gospel. And he says, how can they hear without a preacher, somebody could explain it to them.

If it wasn’t true and not necessary, then having camp is a waste of time. Going so when it is a waste of time. But here’s the logic. Since Christ died on the cross and paid for all the sins of the world, then all the sins of the world are paid for, so therefore everybody will be saved. So if everybody’s going to be saved, there is an advantage of knowing it now because he says these things that have are written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.

It’s just that when you believe it, you know it and the other ones are still going to go to heaven and be saved, but they just don’t know it because they’ve already pay for all the sins of the world. So here you are in this room and let’s say for example half of you you know it and y’all don’t know it but don’t worry about it because you’re going to go to have many way because your sins are already been paid for.

It’s just that there’s more joy in serving the Lord because when you serve the Lord you’re going to get rewarded they just miss out. So y’all just going to miss out but you’re going to go anyway because you paid for your sins. Now it sounds like That ought to be right. Christ paid for all the sins of the world. So everybody sins are paid. Isn’t it true that a lot of time we go out to eat with somebody and we’ll use the illustration.

If you get a state dinner and I get a state dinner, but you pay for it, well then I don’t have to. Well if Christ paid for all the sins of the world, well they don’t have to. We say that all the time. Well then if they don’t have to, then they’re not going to hell because they don’t have to pay for their sin because it’s already been paid. And so there’s a rationale. And as you listen to me, I hope that I’m not mutilating your mind at this time.

But you’ve got to follow my thinking. And so it comes down to then eventually in the future, nobody will ever go to hell. Those that do go, it’s temporary, but afterwards everybody’s gonna be saved. Because doesn’t the Bible say that every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord to the glory of God the Father. Well, if everybody’s gonna bond, everybody’s gonna confess, everybody’s gonna be saved. See there? So we don’t have to worry about the soul, we don’t have to worry about missionaries.

We don’t have to worry about giving money for anything. We don’t have to worry about camp because it’s all gonna work out in the wash. Everything’s gonna be fine. Everything’s gonna be cool. So we don’t have to do anything. And there’s churches that teach this and believe this. And so therefore they don’t have to have a passion for soul. They don’t have to be on fire for the Lord. They don’t have to witness to anybody. So it is a it can be a deadening effect.

But the reason we witness though is so that we can have people to know it, to understand it. And it can sound so reasonable. But I want you to take your Bible and look there in the book of Luke chapter 16. Because in my mind, those that do believe that and there are those. It’s not just isolated one here and one there. Now, this is a major teaching, but I believe it’s flawed and… I believe this, if I can show from the Scriptures where one man goes to hell, it shoots the whole theory out of the water.

If I can put one man in hell and keep him there. I can’t just get him there, I gotta keep him there. To show that even though Christ paid for all the sins of the world, it doesn’t mean everybody saved. It means that everybody can be saved because their sins have been paid for, but I don’t believe that the payment Christ made is put to your account until you believe that He did it for you.” So look what he says here in verse 19, there was a rich man which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and there’s sumptuously every day.

And there was a beggar named Yanki, Elazra, which was laid as a gate full of sores, desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. over the dogs, came licked his sores and he came to pass that the beggar died. Carried by the angels in Abraham’s bosom. Rich man also died, was buried. In hell he licked up his eyes, been in torments, and seeeth Abraham afar off, lasered in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and sin lasered that he may dip the tip of his finger and water and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame.

So we have two individuals, one rich, one poor, both die. And the Bible says one went to a place of like paradise, Abraham built him, and a place of comfort, and the other one went to a place of torment. And so we know several things. The man died. He was buried, and immediately he lifted his eyes in hell. So there was no soul sleep. He immediately was placed in hell. So he did go there, but then the object comes up to this is that, well, this is before Christ died because Christ is telling the story.

But there’s something else about this I want you to see. When he makes the statement there in verse 25, but Abraham said, son, remember the thalandai lifetime, receiveth thy good things and likewise, Lazarus evil things. Now he is comforted, thou art toward mened. One is comforted and one is toward mened. for how long, how long is this going to take place? I mean, is this until the cross or is it going to be after this too? But look what he says.

And verse 26, and beside all this between us and you, there is a great Gothic so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot, neither can they pass to us that would come from then. Now, there’s something that I see here in this verse. One is that if you are in the place of paradise or Abraham’s bosom, a place of comfort, you cannot, you cannot go to the place of torment. You can’t go there. And it’s after death.

The person that is in hell, torment, cannot, and we’re talking about the next lifetime because he’s already said, in thy lifetime or thus past. So this is after death. And now after death, that person that is in hell in torment cannot, cannot go where the, the last of was. They cannot go to the other place. So there is a man in hell, and that man in hell can’t ever go to the place where he is. And it doesn’t matter how long it takes place, or if it’s before or after Christ died, the truth of the matter is there is a man in hell.

And it’s after that he cannot get out, he cannot go anywhere. He can’t go to where the place of comfort is. So there is a good possibility that there is a man that did die and go to hell forever. So I believe that I got a man in hell forever. I didn’t send him there. I’m just telling that this is the truth of the matter. And I don’t believe it matters whether or not before the cross-earth. This is a person that went to a place and he can’t go to the other place and it’s after death so we can’t go there and there’s no other clause in him.

But one thing I do want you to see is it because he was rich and Lazarus poor that made the difference? Not exactly. You see there in verse 27 he says, I pray to you therefore Father that thou would have sent him to my father’s house. For I have five brethren that he may testify under them unless they also come to this place of torment. So there’s a possibility. I’ve got five brothers and I don’t want them to come to this place of torment.

So I want him to be able to go back and testify. So the testifying, something that they have to say and something that they need to hear that will make all the difference in the world. It’s not a matter of they had to live a certain way as they had to believe the right thing. You see down here, he makes a statement in verse 29, Abraham said unto him, they have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them. So in the Word of God, it explains how a man was to be saved.

Then he says in verse 31, he said unto them, if they will not hear or hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they, and here’s those two words. You need to unwind your Bible. Be persuaded, the one rose from the dead. So winning is persuading someone with the good news to accept Christ as their Savior. That’s what we do. This is what it’s all about because we believe that Christ died for the sins of the whole world so that everybody in the world could have eternal life and go to heaven whenever they die.

But it doesn’t mean everybody’s going to heaven just because Christ paid for everybody’s sins. He made a way, but people can reject what Christ has done for them. Now take your Bible and turn it up to the book of Matthew chapter 25. Matthew chapter 25 and look there in chapter 31. Matthew 25 verse one. This is when Christ comes back to the earth after his death, Berlin resurrection. It’s already been 2000 years, so we know it’s been a while.

And notice what he said, now this is in the future when he comes back with his holy angels and he sits up his kingdom upon the earth and there is going to be the judgment of the nations. And he says in verse verse 32, and before him shall he gather all nations, and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divided the sheep from the goats. He shall set the sheep on the right hand, goats on the left.

So there’s sheep and there’s goats. There’s saved and there’s lost. There’s righteous and there’s wicked. And this is what he says here in this verse. So there is a judgment that will take place. This is right at the beginning of the thousand reign upon the earth. Now look what he says there in verse 41, verse 41, then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepare for the devil and his angels.

Now the ones that go here, now we’re not talking about the devil going there, though it says that, and we’re not talking about the angels going there, though the verse says that they go there. He’s talking about those unbelievers. He’s talking about those that did not. And he says, depart from me, ye cursed. This is the goats in the chapter. This is those who have not believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. And can I get a lost man from these scriptures into hell?

And not only get him there, can I keep him there for all eternity? Because if it’s true that a man will go to hell and will be in hell for all eternity, then everybody’s not going to be saved. It means that there will be people in hell who did have their sins paid for, but they rejected the payment Christ made. They rejected their Savior. They could have been saved, but they rejected. He says, down in verse 46, and these shall go away into, get this, temporary punishment.

But the righteous into life eternal, now know that there is a difference between the two groups. One is forever. And one is talking about everlasting punishment, and the other is life eternal. There’s two different places, two different groups, two different results, consequences and what makes the difference is Christ. Now did Christ die for the sins of the whole world? Or he only died for those that were going to believe in the other ones. There was, so there are those who called themselves Calvinists and don’t believe that God paid for all the sins of everybody.

So you see you can have air by not believing that Christ paid for all the sins of all the world, but just believe he paid for just a certain group and and he didn’t save a pay for the sins of the other. Then you have others that believe he paid for everybody’s sins. So everybody’s going to heaven. There’s air on both sides. I believe he paid for all the sins of the world, but only those that believe on him have everlasting life.

Christ says, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. And he that believeth not shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth upon him. So there’s those who believe and there’s those who do not believe. But not everybody. is going to be saved eventually. Because there’s those who are going to be suffering, as he says right here, ever-lasting punishment. Be punished forever. And those who trust Christ is Savior will have everlasting life and live with Lord forever.

He says, and I’ll never cast you out, never lose you. I will be with you always. So there is a difference. And we’re not all going to be saved. Don’t you believe for a moment that your friends and your mama, your dad, your relatives, your aunts and your uncles and all that? Well, they’ll be saved eventually because Christ paid for everybody’s sins. And so everybody’s going to be saved. It is not true. And you and I need to take it seriously because it’s the Bible that says they’re those that reject Christ and will spend eternity separated from Him.”

Now, I want you to take your Bible and turn all the way over there to the book of Jude, the book of Jude. In the book of Jude, right before the book of revolution, there is an interesting statement found here. And you’ll look there in the book of Jude in chapter 1. It’s only got one chapter, so if you get to chapter 2, you went too far. But it has to deal with believing and those that do not believe.

You see what he says there in verse 7, look in verse 7, even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, given themselves over the fornication going after strange flesh are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Now here is using the example of Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them. Now I had Jehovah’s Witnesses, I might as well tell you where they were. They said, yes, yes, I know that verse in there, but it’s not talking about the people, it’s talking about the cities.

I don’t know why I didn’t see that. So the First National Bank committed for an occasion with the Safeway store and going after strange cement. They didn’t like that. But look what he says. Giving them cells, so we’re talking about people. Giving themselves over to fornication. We’re talking about the people that were there. And God said, are set for, for an example, get this in your underlying decision about them, suffering, that’s present tense. Suffering the vengeance of what kind of fire?

Eternal fire. So this was written, you know, 2,000 years ago, and sawed in the Gamora, 1,500 to 2,000 years before this, and they’re still there, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. So is it possible that Christ died on the cross and paid for the sins of the world and at the same time there’s people who reject that payment. See, don’t you believe that people are going to be saved anyway? It won’t matter. Nobody’s going to go to hell. I actually believe that there’s Christians who don’t believe that their loved ones are really going to go to hell.

They never witness and I talk to them and they have no concern. No, they love them. They want them to go to heaven, but they never find a way. They never talk to them about the Lord. I’ve talked to husbands and wives that know the Lord and they never ask their husband or their wife if they’re going to heaven or not. I can’t fathom that. I just blows my mind. Listen, if I love my children, pray, tell, why wouldn’t I want to know if they’re going?

Wouldn’t you ask them? Wouldn’t you want to find out if they’ve trusted the Lord? Do you believe, well, they’re going to go to heaven anyway. You know, Christ out of the cross, pay for everybody’s sins and eventually everybody’s going to go to heaven. I don’t really know nobody’s going to go to hell. They will go to hell. That’s what makes it serious. If it wasn’t serious, take your Bible and throw it in a trash and do whatever we want to do.

But we’re not supposed to play a game. It’s not, we’re not supposed to be hypocrites. If this is true, then it’s true. People will go to hell. People are lost. Look what he says there in verse 13. Where it says, raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame. Wonder stars get this to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for how long? It’s forever. It’s not temporary, it’s forever. Whoever they may be, but we’re talking about people.

You how do you know that? We’ll look at that very next verse. And Enoch also the seventh from Adam prophesied of these, these that will be like wondering stars forever and ever in the blackness of blackness. This Enoch who lived before the flood says, Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints. Now you won’t turn in your old testament and find where Enoch preached one message. But the Bible tells us that he did. And if he knew about Jesus Christ coming and power in great glory, how much more did he know?

He had to know a lot more than that one little line. He either had a short sermon. But I believe he probably knew as much as what we know today. Except we just have the scripture. But I believe God told him things that were never written down, but they knew. And just like whenever you read in the book of Hebrews in chapter 11, how the Bible talks about how Moses chosen to suffer affliction with the children of God rather than the people of Egypt.

And he says that he esteemed the reproach of Christ’s greater riches and the treasures of Egypt. Well, how did he know about Christ and the treasures? How do you know all that? Evidently they knew things that’s not in the scripture, because you go back to the Old Testament, you don’t see where he, where did he know all that? Or it’s in there and we just ain’t seen it yet. But to whom is reserved the mist, the blackness of darkness forever.

And get what God said. That when Enoch preached back then, he says to execute judgment upon all to convince all that are ungodly, among them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed and have all their hard speeches, which they ungodly sinners have spoken against him. These are murmurs, complainers, walking after their own lusts and their words speak of great swelling words, having men’s persons and admiration because of advantage. But beloved, remember ye the words which was spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Is he talking about people, talking about people. People that are going to be suffering the vengeance of eternal fire forever in the midst of blackness forever. You think it’s going to be, you know, you go to hell with hell, fire, fire, light. Hey, everybody, you’re gonna see everybody. Hey, there’s Joe over there. Hey, there’s Peter Motto. Hey, there’s, you know, no. It’s gonna be blackness. There’s no light There. There’s no light. Hail is going to be dark. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, and that today’s concluding message of this teaching will be a blessing to you and your family. We believe that Christ died for the sins of the whole world, so that everybody in the world could have eternal life and go to heaven whenever they die.

But it doesn’t mean everybody’s going to heaven just because Christ paid for everybody sins. He made a way, but people can reject what Christ has done for them. Now take your Bible and turn it up to the book of Matthew chapter 25. Matthew chapter 25. and look there in chapter 31, Matthew 25 verse 31. This is when Christ comes back to the earth after his death, Berlin resurrection. It’s already been 2000 years, so we know it’s been a while.

And notice what he says, now this is in the future when he comes back with his holy angels and he sits up his kingdom upon the earth and there is going to be the judgment of the nations. And he says in verse 32, and before him shall he gather all nations and he shall separate them one from another as a shepherd divided the sheep from the goats. He shall set the sheep on the right hand goats on the left.

So there’s sheep and there’s goats. There’s saved and there’s loss. There’s righteous and there’s wicked. And this is what he says here in this verse. So there is a judgment that will take place. This is right at the beginning of the 1000 year reign upon the earth. Now look what he says there in verse 41 verse 41. Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepare for the devil and his angels.”

Now the ones that go here, now we’re not talking about the devil going there though it says that. And we’re not talking about the angels going there though the verse says that they go there. He’s talking about those unbelievers, he’s talking about those that did not And he says, depart from me, he cursed. This is the goats in the chapter. This is those who have not believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. And can I get a lost man from these scriptures into hell?

And not only get him there, can I keep him there for all eternity? Because if it’s true that a man will go to hell and will be in hell for all eternity, then everybody’s not going to be saved. It means that there will be people in hell who did have their sins paid for, but they rejected the payment Christ made. They rejected their Savior. They could have been saved, but they rejected. Look what he says, 9 in verse 46, and these shall go away into, get this, temporary punishment.

But the righteous into life eternal, now know that there is a difference between the two groups. One is forever. And one is talking about everlasting punishment and the other is life eternal. There’s two different places, two different groups, two different results, consequences. And what makes the difference is Christ. Now did Christ die for the sins of the whole world? Or he only died for those that were going to believe in the other ones. There was, so there are those who called themselves Calvinists and don’t believe that God pay for all the sins of everybody.

So you see, you could have air by not believing that Christ paid for all the sins of all the world, but just believe He paid for just a certain group and He didn’t save or pay for the sins of the other. Then you have others that believe He paid for everybody’s sins. So everybody’s going to heaven. There’s air on both sides. I believe he paid for all the sins of the world, but only those that believe on him have everlasting life.

Christ said, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. And he that believeth not shall not see life, but the wrath of God abided upon him. So there’s those who believe and there’s those who do not believe. But not everybody is going to believe. going to be saved eventually. Because there’s those who are going to be suffering, as he says right here, everlasting punishment. Be punished forever. And those who trust Christ is Savior will have everlasting life and live with Lord forever.

He says, and I’ll never cast you out, never lose you. I will be with you always. So there is a difference. And we’re not all going to be saved. Don’t you believe for a moment that your friends and your mama, your dad, your relatives, your aunts and your uncles and all that? Well, they’ll be saved eventually because Christ paid for everybody sins and so everybody’s going to be saved. It is not true. And you and I need to take it seriously because it’s the Bible that says they’re those that reject Christ and will spend eternity separated from Him.”

Now, I want you to take your Bible and turn all the way over there to the book of Jude, the book of Jude. In the book of Jude, right before the book of revolution, there is an interesting statement found here. And you’ll look there in the book of Jude in chapter 1. It’s only got one chapter, so if you get to chapter two, you went too far. But it has to deal with believing and those that do not believe.

You see what he says there in verse 7, looking verse 7, even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, given themselves over the fornication going after strange flesh set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Now here is using an example of Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them. Now I had Jehovah’s Witnesses, I might as well tell you where they were. They said, yes, yes, I know that verse in there, but it’s not talking about the people, it’s talking about the cities.

I don’t know why I didn’t see that. So the first national bank committed for an occasion with the Safeway store and going And then after strange cement, they didn’t like that. But look what he says, giving them cells, so we’re talking about people, giving themselves over to fornication. We’re talking about the people that were there. And God said, are set for for an example, get this in your underlying history of the Bible, suffering, that’s present tense. Suffering the vengeance of what kind of fire.

Eternal fire. So this was written, you know, 2000 years ago, and saw to make a more of 1,500 to 2,000 years before this, and they’re still there suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. So is it possible that Christ died on the cross and paid for the sins of the world? And at the same time, there’s people who reject that payment? See, don’t you believe that people are going to be saved anyway? It won’t matter. to go to hell. I actually believe that there’s Christians who don’t believe that their loved ones are really going to go to hell.

They never witness and I talk to them and they have no concern. They love them, they want them to go to heaven, but they never find a way. They never talk to them about the Lord. I’ve talked to husbands and wives that know the Lord and they never ask their husband or their wife if they’re going to heaven or not. I can’t Fathom that. I just blows my mind. Listen, if I love my children, pray, tell, why wouldn’t I want to know if they’re going?

Wouldn’t you ask them? Wouldn’t you want to find out if they’ve trusted the Lord? Do you believe, well, they’re gonna go to heaven anyway? You know, Christ out of the cross pay for everybody’s sins and eventually everybody’s gonna go to heaven. I don’t believe nobody’s gonna go to hell. They will go to hell. That’s what makes it serious. If it wasn’t serious, then take your Bible and throw it in a trash and do whatever we want to do. But we’re not supposed to play a game.

It’s not we’re not supposed to be hypocrites. If this is true, then it’s true. People will go to hell. People are lost. Look what he says there in verse 13. Where it says, raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame. Wonder stars get this to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for how long? It’s forever. It’s not temporary, it’s forever. Whoever they may be, but we’re talking about people. You how do you know that? We’ll look at the very next verse.

And Enoch also the seventh from Adam prophesied of these, these that will be like wondering stars forever and ever in the blackness to blackness. This Enoch who lived before the flood says, Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints. Now you won’t turn in your Old Testament and find where Enoch preached one message. But the Bible tells us that he did. And if he knew about Jesus Christ coming and power and great glory, how much more did he know?

He had to know a lot more than that one little line. He either had a short sermon. But I believe he probably knew as much as what we know today. Except we just have the scripture, but I believe God told them things that were never written down, but they knew. And it just like whenever you read in the book of Hebrews in chapter 11, how that the Bible talks about how Moses chosen to suffer affliction with the children of God rather than the people of Egypt.

And he says that he esteemed the reproach of Christ’s greater riches and the treasures of Egypt. Well, how did he know about Christ? And the treasures. How do you know all that? Evidently, they knew things that’s not in the scripture. Because you go back to the Old Testament, You don’t see where he, where did he know all that? Or it’s in there and we just ain’t seen it yet. But to whom is reserved the mis, the blackness of darkness forever.

And get what God said. That when Enoch preached back then, he says to execute judgment upon all to convince all that are ungodly, among them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed and have all their hard speeches, which they ungodly sinners have spoken against him. These are murmurs, complainers walking after their own loss and their words speak of great swelling words, having men’s persons and admiration because of advantage. But beloved, remember ye the words which was spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Is he talking about people? Talking about people. People that are going to be suffering the vengeance of eternal fire forever in the midst of blackness forever. You think it’s going to be, you know, you go to hell with fire, fire, light. Hey, everybody, you don’t see everybody. Hey, there’s Joe over there. Hey, there’s Peter Motto. Hey, there’s, you know, no. It’s going to be blackness. There’s no light there. There’s no light. Hell is going to be dark. And it says in verse 23, because in verse 22, we talk about having compassion, having compassion, making a difference, and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, pulling them out of the fire.

You see, everybody is lost, condemned, and going to hell. And God tells us to go into all the world and to do what He came to do, to seek and to save that which was lost. So as we seek every man I win the Christ, I pulled him out of the fire. I win this kid to the Lord. I pull him out of the fire. I win that waitress to the Lord. I just pull that one out of the fire.

These that went so when they just pulled him out of the fire, they’re making a difference because of compassion. You see, but if I just believe that everybody’s going to be saved anyway, then why should I have compassion? Why should I want to make a difference for 51 years? I wanted to make a difference. Because when I trusted Christ as my Savior, and I thought, everybody ought to know this. Everybody ought to know this. And I have no desire to slow down.

I’ll slow down when I can’t go. When I get old like melds and I’ll slow down. By the way, I am older than melds. I want you to take your Bible and look in the book of Revelation. The book of Revelation in chapter… Oh, what’s a good chapter? I don’t know. There ought to be a good chapter in here somewhere. Look in chapter 14, Revelation 14, and look in verse 10, verse 10. The same shall drink of the wind of the wrath of God.

Which is poured out without mixture. It means it’s not deluded. God’s gonna pour out his wrath and see when you read in the book of John chapter 3 verse 36, he that believeeth on the Son half life and he that believeeth not the Son half not life but the wrath of God abided upon him. Those that do not believe the wrath of God will abide upon them. This is the wrath of God that is talking about, saving us from.

So he says here and he says, the wrath of God, which is poured out without mercy. is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation. And he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb and the smoke of their torment. Ascendeth up for how long? For ever and ever, and they have no rest, day nor night. And this is after after they die. forever and ever.

So you see, if you can just get one man in hell, it disproves the theory that even though Christ paid for all this end, that payment he made can be rejected. God does not save anybody against their will. God does not and will not force anybody to trust Christ as their Savior. If a man chooses to reject that payment Christ made, that man is going to spend an eternity in hell. And not because he has to, it’s because he chose.

He rejected the only way out. And I believe that most people think, and you can talk to people, and a lot of time I open up a conversation this way. I do it a lot of times. I say, can I ask you two questions? isn’t it true that you’ve heard most of your life that Jesus Christ out on the cross and paid for all the sins of the world? And most of them said, well yes. Well if they’ve heard that do they automatically believe?

Well I’m going to heaven he paid for all of my sins. They don’t automatically believe it. And then I asked them if he paid for all the sins of the world have you ever wondered why you would have to go to hell and pay for sin if he paid for all? There is a reason why a man would still go to hell because he rejects the payment Christ made, because it will not believe that he did it for them.

If you believe he did it for you, the not payment he made is put to your account and you get to go to heaven on what Christ did for us. See all of us in this room that know we have eternal life, the only reason you know you’re going to heaven, you know it’s not by your works. The only reason you know is because you believe you’re going? Because you believe it. You believe you’re going to heaven because you believe a promise that he made.

And the promise is too full. One, we should believe what he said and what he did. You see, what he did was pay for all the sins of the world. And what he said was, if I would believe it. I got to believe it. He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that And whosoever believeth shall not perish, that mean he won’t go to hell. He won’t go to if he believes.

Take your Bible and turn there, because I want you to see this very quickly. Over there in the book of Romans and chapter 4. Romans chapter 4, Romans chapter 4, and you’ll notice there in verse 21, a good definition of what faith is, where He makes the statement and being fully persuaded that what He had promised, He was also able to perform. Why do I trust Christ as my Savior? Because I believe that He is capable of performing what He promised.

He will save me. You see, I could trust males to take me to heaven, but I don’t believe He can do it. I think He’ll come up short. I one girl one time I says, why? Why do you date this short guy? She says better today than not at all. Now there’s wisdom somewhere in there. Look at verse 22. Therefore, it was imputed to him for righteousness, put to his account. Verse 23, now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, to Him, but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we what?

If we believe. See, His righteousness that we need to go to heaven on is not imputed to you or put to your account till you believe that He did it for you. So He made a payment so that you could have eternal life. But you must believe it that he did it for you. And when you believe he did it for you, he puts that payment to your account. He imputes his righteousness to your account. And you get to go to heaven on his righteousness, not your righteousness.

See, he can’t impute his righteousness to you with your sins. He had to pay for the sins, but that doesn’t give you righteousness. That doesn’t make you perfect just because he paid for the sins. The righteousness can’t be imputed to you until the sins were paid for. That’s so clear in my mind, but something’s not able to get across to some people. They don’t see it. And yet I believe it’s the most important thing. Very quickly as we close, look here in Revelation in chapter 21.

Excuse me, Revelation chapter 20, my first mistake. In Revelation in chapter 20, we know that the devil is cast into the lake of fire. And it says that the beasts and the false prophet are still there. So they have already lived their life. A thousand years has passed and the devil is cast where the beasts and the false prophet are. And those were the two men that were up on the earth, the heads of the last world government and the religious leader.

So here he makes the statement in verse 11, I saw a great white throne and him that’s Saturnate from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were open. And another book was open, which is the book of life. So there’s the book of living and the book of life. The book of living, your name can be blotted out.

But the book of life, the land book of life, it cannot be blotted out. For example, in the Old Testament, the book of Genesis chapter 5 verse 1, the Bible says, and this is the book of the generation of Adam, and the day that God created him. And he lived so long, and he died. In the book of Matthew in chapter 1 and verse 1 it says, this is the book of the generation of Jesus Christ. That’s the Lamb’s book of life.

And in that genialit there’s no deaths. So there’s two books, Genesis, Adam, they all die, book of living. Here the book of life, the Lamb’s book of life. And that’s why he says, Rejoice into your names written in the Lamb’s book of life. Now he says you cannot have your name blotted out of the Lamb’s book of life. He could be brought out of the book of living. Two different books. When you get to heaven, God says all the lost people are going to have to stand and there’s two books.

And the books will be open. And it has in that book all their works that they have done and they will be judged by their works. Because they wouldn’t accept the payment Christ made. They didn’t want salvation by grace. They think, I don’t need His payment. I don’t need His grace, and therefore by their works, and God will show that He is just, and every one of those people that are condemned, for all eternity, that God has kept a record.

And by their works, they are condemned. By their words, they are condemned. By their thoughts, they are condemned. And then He says, the book of life. and it says there in verse 15, and whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast where? To the lake of fire. So there’s those that will be cast into the lake of fire. Now that lake of fire, they will be cast into it forever and ever. See what it says even in verse 14?

Death and hell, those that were judged, that came, this is after they’ve been resurrected and death and hell means the death, the bodies that were in the grave and the souls that were in the place of torment, they will stand before God and those same people, those same people that have already died are going to be cast into a hell. And this is after they’ve already died once. That’s why it’s called the second death when they were separated from their body and from this life.

And then when they’re separated from God for all eternity. And that’s why it makes the statement there in verse 14, death and hell were cast into the lake of power. This is the second death. That’s why we often say, if you’re born twice, you’ll only die once, but if you’re born once, you’ll die twice. Don’t that make sense? It’s that new mass I got out of gifts, I don’t know. Look up here. I know I’m going to heaven because I believe on Christ because I have trusted him as my Savior.

And I believe that if a man has not trusted Christ as Savior. They will not go to heaven. And they will not be forgiven in this life nor in the one to come. This is why when you read the book of Luke in chapter 16 that once they’re dead, they can’t go from one place to the other place. So the person who dies without the Lord can’t ever go to the other place. I believe the Scriptures are clear. Look up here.

This hand represent you and me and the wall of represents sin on us. God says that He loves us, but He hates our sin. And for us to pay for that sin, eternal separation from God in a place called hell, but God loves us, wants us to go to heaven and spend eternity with Him. But you see, heaven is a perfect place. And to go to heaven, you’ve got to be perfect because God is perfect and heaven is perfect, but because of sin, can’t get in.

So the Bible says you cannot earn eternal life, you cannot work your way to heaven. That’s why Christ died, because there was no other way. You’ll never be good enough to go to heaven. So Jesus Christ, God’s Son, had no sin, He came into the world because He loves us. He hates our sin because it separates us from Him. So Jesus Christ who had no sin didn’t have to die, but because He loved us, He took our sins, paid for them on the cross, came back from the dead.

And God said that if you and I, if we would believe He did it for us, He would put that payment to our account and we’d get to go to heaven on what he did. There’s no tricks to that. See, if I offered you my microphone and you accepted, I’d have a microphone. I offered you my Bible and you accepted, I’d have a Bible. I offered you my wallet and you accepted, I’d have an empty wallet. Now, if Christ walked in here and offered you eternal life and you accepted what you’d have, eternal life.

If it’s eternal life, it would last forever. And if it lasts forever and all your sins are paid, then where would you go when you die to heaven? So can you know you’re going to heaven before you die? Yes, that’s what makes it good news. It’s free and you can have it now. Let’s pray, shall we? With every head bowed and every eye closed and no one looking around, if you’ve never trusted Christ as your only hope of going to heaven, would you do that right now?

I’m not gonna have you forward, not gonna embarrass you, but perl right where you’re sitting. You say, preacher, that made sense to me. I wanna be certain I’m going to heaven. I don’t want to run the risk of waiting till I die. Find not it’s all true and then I’ve done messed up. But why not right now? Just the best you know I’ll say, Lord, I believe Christ died and He paid for my sins and I’m going to trust Him as my only hope of going to heaven.

See, friend, God knows if you believe it. He knows if you believe it. He knows if you don’t believe it. So you can fool people, but you can’t fool God. And this is between you and Him. So if you will trust Christ as your Savior, I’d like to know it. And I’d like to have a word of prayer for you. But I don’t want to embarrass you, and so I do it with head by a nice clothes. I’m not going to have you forward.

But right where you are, if what I said made sense, you said, yes, preach what that did. And I’ll trust Christ as my Savior. And would you just slip your hand very quickly, better write that down? Just slip it up real quick, put it right back down. And we’re all. Our Father, we thank You so much for all You’ve done for us. Help us Lord to understand the importance of this message so that we would have something that challenges and motivates us because that’s why we need compassion.

That’s why we want to make a difference. And we do want to pull people out of the fire. Thank you Lord so much for days that went so in the other night. Others that witnessed on their job. Those that plant seeds all over by passing our tracks. And Father, we just thank you so much for those. Many that indicated they would trust you. We thank you for this time together. In Christ’s name we pray, Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, A teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

Ralph Arnold. We pray that you are blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach by the line and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free, 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. To listen to today’s message again or to obtain a free download of any of our Bible line programs, just go to our homepage at BibleLineMinistries.org and click on the Radio Broadcast link.

If you are in the area, we welcome you to visit us. The address for Calvary Community Church is 4811 George Road, Tampa, Florida, 33634. Our Sunday morning services begin at 10.30 and at 6 o’clock on Sunday evening. Live broadcast of our services may be seen by clicking on the Calvary Community Church link at BibleLineMinistries.org. Thanks for joining us on Bibleline, and now a closing thought from Pastor Arnold. Friend, one day it will happen. The trumpet will sound, and we will be changed.

caught up to meet the Lord in in the air. So live today and every day, believe in that the Lord is coming soon and just keep looking up.

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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s message will be a blessing to you and your family. Alrighty, good to have you tonight. It’s Thanksgiving Day week. We should all learn to give thanks to the Lord. A Psalm of Thanksgiving, a Psalm of Thanksgiving. Psalm 75 one says unto the O God, do we give thanks? A lot of times we’re just gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, but the Lord likes to hear every once in a while, hey, thank you.

Thank you Lord. Thank the Lord for what you have. But I want you to take your Bible and turn to the hundredth Psalm. The hundredth Psalm, I want you to read it with me here. In verse one, read it out loud with me. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord, he is God. It is he that hath made us and not we ourselves.

We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise. Be thankful unto him and bless his name. For the Lord is good, his mercy in everlasting, and his truth endureth to all generation.” Isn’t that a great song? It really is. There’s seven things that I believe from these verses that we could be thankful for and should be. You’ll notice there in verse three where it says, Know ye that the Lord, He is God.

He is God. Did you know we might know that there is a God, but we would not know that Jehovah is God. The Lord, He is God. L-O-R-D caps is a reference to Jehovah Himself. And this is because God had revealed Himself unto us. We have a book that’s revealing the will of God. I have not seen, ear have not heard, neither has entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for them that love Him.

But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit. Yea, the Spirit searches all things, ye the deep things of God. For what man knew of the things of God, say the Spirit of man which is within him. Even though the things of God, no man can know, except the Spirit of God dwell within him. And then we compare spiritual things by spiritual means, and we know things that the natural man does not know because the things of God are spiritually discerned.

So we have a book that reveals to us the mind of God, the way of God. And so we are very fortunate that we have such a wonderful book that we can read and know about the true and living God. The next thing here is the word creation. And that is in verse three, if you look there, it is he that hath made us and not we ourselves. Now I know sometimes we hear about the I’m a self-made man.

Yeah. There was a couple of these, you know, scientists, atheists that said we can do anything that so-called God could have done. We can make man from the dust of the earth. So they thought they would just have a contest and they wanted to show that they could take dirt and make a man. So they reached down there to get them some dirt and a voice out of heaven said, get your own dirt. They couldn’t even start because they couldn’t even make dirt let alone a man.

God can make the dirt and God can take a body and form it from the dirt of the ground and breathe into his nostles, the breath of the blade man becomes a living soul. Look there in the 139th Psalm. Hold your place right here. But the 139th Psalm. And you’ll get a glimpse of just what David understood. Look how smart this guy was. Now, you know, either God gave him this wisdom, or he was a mighty smart man. I think God could have intervened and told him some wonderful things.

But what I want you to see about what God has done look down in verse 13 Verse 13 For a vial has possessed my reigns. They’ll have covered me in my mother’s womb So he’s saying that God knew me when I was in my mama’s womb and God’s the one that formed my body He says in verse 14 good what he says I will praise thee For I am fearfully and wonderfully made Marvelous are thy works and that my soul knoweth the right will believe God made me God made me My substance was not hit from the when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest part of the earth Thine I did see my substance yet being unperth thee and in thy book all my members were written means it probably every hair you head to, which in continuance were fashion when is yet there was none of them.

How precious also get this are thy thoughts on the me, oh God. How great is the sum of them. In other words, God thinking about me. You think God has a lot of things on his mind. He got a lot of things to think about and then to realize God is up in heaven. Thank you about me. Did you know that when Christ went to the cross, when He was on the cross, what? I was on His mind. First time I ever heard that song, a lady from Lee Patton’s church, got up there and sung that song.

I had never heard it before. And I loved that song. I fell in love with it. When He was on the cross, I was on His mind. And that God so loved the world and His nobody that he loves more than me, but he loves me. He loves me. He loves you. And if that is true, then he has to think about me. If he died for my sin, then he had to think about me and my sin. He has all these thoughts.

And God thinks about me. If I should count them, they’re more in number than the sands. When I wake, I am still with thee. Surely, thou will slay the wicked, O God, and so on. Now look at verse 23. You and I are supposed to believe that God made us. He made us. So we examine ourselves and see is there any wicked way in me? Is there anything in my life that would hinder me from being what I should be with my heavenly Father?

Look what he says in verse 23. Search me, oh God, and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts. See if there be any wicked way and lead me in the way everlasting. This is what God wants you and I to do. God created us. So when you are thankful, you should be thankful that God had revealed himself. I guess we can be thankful that God made us. Take a look in the 19th Psalm. The 19th Psalm. is a mighty good psalm.

He kind of lets us know who’s running things around here. In verse one of the 19th psalm, the heavens declared the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork. Day, unto day, utter a speech, and night, and the night showeth knowledge. To believe, believe it or not, that every day the rotation of the year, the sun, the moon starts, all that teaches things. I believe in the very beginning before they had the Word of God, they all taught lessons.

I believe the 12 signs of the zodiac is not a wicked evil thing. I believe astrology has ruined it, but God in the beginning, I believe God started it. I believe they have signs and they they meant things. You can study the signs of the zodiac and there it’s actually it’s like the gospel in the stars. But anyway in verse 3 it says, there is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world.

And Demhati said a tabernacle for the sun. Just think how big the sun is. It would be 93 million miles away from the earth. Just big old ball of fire. And yet think of how many stars there are. How big they are and yet he was able to place this one here and place that one there and did this and All the stars all over the universe everywhere Have you ever wondered what’s at the end of the end? At the end of space, what’s out there then?

Is there no end to anything? It’s all interesting to me. But then he says, the the sun, every day when the sun goes to the heavens, it’s like a strong man running to win a race. And then lo and behold, it comes back to where it started and does it again because God has a course. And it says they’re in verse four, their line has gone throughout the earth and their words to the end of the world. to them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom cometh out of his chamber and rejoices a strong man to run a race.

His going forth is from the end of the heaven and his circuit unto the ends of it, and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. The law of the Lord is perfect, so he gets into the Word. So God made the world to reveal God, and God made His Word to reveal God. So if the world was made by God and the word was given by God, then the world and the word should agree. And it does. Evolution doesn’t agree with the world and the teaching of evolution doesn’t agree with God.

It does agree with the word. Evolution must be wrong. It is. But the law of the Lord is perfect talking about His word. And God has given it to us. In Luke, in verse 11, I want you to see this. Moreover, by them is thy servant, get this warned, and in keeping of them there is great reward. So there is the reason why God has given to us his word and revealed these things unto us, because we are his creation.

He not only made us, but he has a purpose for our creation. And that’s why we studied the word of God to see what is it that God wants us to know. And look down in verse 14, he says, let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be in your underlying this word be acceptable and thy sight, oh Lord, my strength and my redeemer. So we have in the word of God an admonition that though he made the world he also made us and he gave us his word which is perfect.

And by it, we are warned and that we are going to be rewarded based upon what we do with the word that we’ve heard. So as an individual, I am supposed to learn and to do that which is acceptable in God’s eyes. So we often do what we think is acceptable to us. You know, it pleases me. It’s what I want to do with my life. Yep, but it belongs to God. Number three, manifestation. In verse 5 there in the 100th Psalm, it makes the statement, God is good.

Did you know that for you to serve the Lord and to be happy serving the Lord, to be pleased and serving the Lord, you have to believe that God is good. If you don’t believe that God is good, you’ll have a serious problem walking with him. I have lived long enough to see and to believe with all my heart. God is a good God. What if God had been a bad God? What if God had been a mean God?

But the Bible says God is good. In the book of Acts it talks about Jesus Christ and everywhere he went. He went about doing good. Just doing good. Sometimes you may not get a chance to witness to somebody. You can still do good. Sometimes you don’t always get a chance to just challenge somebody’s servo, but you still do good. Just do good by people. Be kind because that’s what God is. Be loving because God is loving. Be forgiving because God is forgiving.

But God is good. David said this, and I want you to see this because it’s so good, hold your place right here and just look there in the 23rd Psalm. Most of the time we always use the 23rd Psalm at a funeral. But since nobody’s dying here tonight, as I know of, I want you to look at this as David gave it because he was a shepherd and he had sheep and he says, the Lord is my shepherd. So in verse 1 of the 23rd Psalm, he says, the Lord is my shepherd.

I shall not want. Want for what? the Lord you shepherd. Then you trust the shepherd to lead you, to guide you, provide for you. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the steel waters. He restored my soul. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yay, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I will fear no evil. For thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

Thou preparedst a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. Thou anorneth my head with oil, my cup runneth over.” And look in verse 6, this is what David said, Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord temporarily forever So David knew that he was going to be with the Lord forever But he also knew that he wasn’t there yet and going through this life is going to the valley of the shadow of death death, because at this time all of us live under the shadow of dying.

We don’t know if we’re going to die or if the raptor is going to take place. We all hope that the raptor takes place and we all get out of here without feeling any pain. I’ve never died before and I just don’t want to hurt. But I believe that God can give you dying grace, grace that you need for that moment. It’s called new grace, grace for the moment, the strength, the grace, power to do the will of God at the hour that you need it the most.

So I don’t have to worry about it. I just believe God will tell you, look, look at all the other saints that have already faced it and gone to heaven. If they can face it, we can face it and knows no reason for us to fear. I was thinking as far as the Lord goes, I believe I knew the Lord better than my mom. I believe I know the the Lord better than my two sisters that have already died.

And they can handle it. And they knew they were dying. Surely God will give me the grace that I need at that moment too. And I will fear no evil for thou art with me. Thy rotten thy staff, they comfort me. And he will lead me and guide me into still waters, restoreth my soul. All these things he’s going to do for us all because we are his people and the sheep of his pasture. He is our shepherd. Remember one time I preached a sermon on the great shepherd, the good shepherd?

And I added in there the chief shepherd, the three kinds of shepherds because of who Christ is and what He’s done for us. Look at number four. Number four there in the hundredth Psalm is it says we are His people. We ought to know who we are. This is our redemption because in order to be His people then we need to be redeemed and to be redeemed then somebody had to buy us. Somebody had to make a payment for us.

So you and I can look at it and say yes we believe that Jesus Christ died on the I’ve never had trust paid for all the sins of the world, and by faith alone, I have been redeemed into the family of God. God has done this for me, so I can be thankful that God had revealed Himself through His Son, Jesus Christ, and coming into the world, that he created me. I’m thankful that I have a chance to live.

I have enjoyed my so far 68 years of life. I don’t know how much time God’s gonna give me. It might be I’m on the downhill side of life. But then I might live to be, I mean after all Abraham he lived to be 175 years old. Remember He was old and an old man and he couldn’t even have a child and then Lord had to strengthen his body And then he wound up after sir. I got married again and had some more kids lived to be a hundred and seventy five a Lot thought he was I mean not like a joke thought he was gonna die and Yet God gave him some more kids and some more kids and some more kids.

It’s a more kid grandkids to the fourth generation after that. And it says that he died full of age. Well, of course, of that old. They say that, you know, cheese gets better with age. I don’t really know. Somebody tried to tell me that wine gets better with age. I wouldn’t know that either. But I do believe that we ought to enjoy life. We ought to enjoy life. God has been good to us. God is a good God and I can be thankful for all the things that he brought into my life.

Yes, I can look back and I can see a trail of tears. I’ve had a lot of times when I have spent time just crying to the Lord. You know, whining a little bit to the Lord. You’re a whine. I’ve done a lot of that. But God’s always brought me through. He’s always brought me through. I couldn’t always see how he’s gonna do it, but I always believed. God’s a good God. I don’t know how you’re gonna do it.

God’s a good God. And he knows who I am. He knows I’m his child. I’m in his family. And he’s good, and he loves me. And if I can just keep believing that, it didn’t matter what happens. My heavenly father walked with me. There’s a song that I learned years ago called, just me and my Lord, just me and my Lord, walking together, me and my Lord, walking alone. Even though you can have a husband or a wife and you can have kids and go to church and you all know all the people, there’s no substitute for just you and the Lord walking together.

Lord has to be real and precious to you. So he is our Redeemer. The number five restoration, the sheep of his pastor. Now if he’s the, with the sheep of his pastor, I mean it’s his responsibility to provide for us. You see the shepherd would lead the sheep and provide the green grass and make sure that there was some still waters. And the shepherd was gonna protect the sheep. You know, you can’t find anything dumber than a sheep, maybe a turkey.

But they are so naive. And that’s why sometimes people might call you, you turkey. That’s not a compliment. I am not a sheep without a shepherd. I have one. I know his name. And when I hear his voice, I want to follow him. The next word is restoration. of his pastor, he restored my soul. You ever get tired and weary and worn? Is it going to bed and resting such a wonderful invention? I love a bed. I love going to sleep.

Eating and sleeping are two wonderful inventions of God. It is so enjoyable. But anyway, the word justification, his mercy, his mercy. He had mercy upon us and his mercy, if it last forever, then it means I’m justified and I have mercy forever. See, once you’re saved, you’re always saved. Once you’re forgiven, you’re always forgiven. That’s what’s wonderful about the Lord. I have been redeemed. I’m justified just as if I had never sinned. That’s how I got to be part of his family.

I’ve got a lot to be thankful for. I’ve often wondered if somebody had not led me to the Lord when I was 18 years old, what would have ever happened to me? What I would have done. Would I have lived this long? I am so glad. God has intervened in my life and wrong my bell. And I am so glad that I know the Lord, but I’m glad that He knows me. And I’m just thankful for that. Every person living in America, all to be so thankful that we have the freedoms to believe like we believe and that we can serve the Lord without persecution.

But we might lose that someday, but we have this moment. We ought to do what we can with what we have where we are. And God bless us for it. The last word is inspiration. His truth endures to all generation. His truth is His word. And the Bible says concerning His word, thy word is truth. Thy word is truth from the book of John in chapter 17. Saint defy them through thy word, thy word is truth. It is inspired to believe that the word of God didn’t come from a man, but it came from God himself.

And that you and I have such a wonderful book that we can read and study it and get as close to the Lord as we wanna get. You can get as close to God as you want to. and nobody can stop you. You can be as holy of an individual, as godly of an individual as you want to be. You can be as dedicated to God as you want to be. Think that good. That’s something everybody ought to be thankful for.

But I believe that it’s good to be thankful to the Lord and let other people know that you’re thankful. And what are you thankful for? Because you see, a lot of people have an a rough time. Some people may not have a job. Some people may be facing surgery. A lot of people have a lot of problems that they just don’t know how they’re going to solve. And something that you say about what God means to you could be such an uplifting.

I love it in their life. People need help. People need encouragement. I only got so many stories to tell. I can only face so much. But see, y’all got things that God has taught you. God’s brought you through some things. But you keep serving the Lord and don’t let anything in this world stop you from doing what God wants you to do with your life. Look up here. This hand represents me and the wallet represents sin. We all have sin upon us.

us. We’re supposed to believe that it is He, God, that have made us. And even though He didn’t make us, He didn’t make us a sinner, that’s because we have some parents from down the road that decided to rebel against the Lord. And they send. And because they send, were given an old sinful nature, and that old sinful nature is why we commit all these sins. This does not make us a sinner. We do all these sins because we are a sinner.

And the Bible says that wages of sin is death, eternal separation from God in hell. But God loves us and wants us to have eternal life and to go to heaven. But we’re separated from God. That separation God calls death were separated. But God loves us and there’s nothing we can do to save ourselves. This hand represents Jesus Christ, He’s the Lord God and the flesh. He came into the world because He loves us, hates our sin because it separates us from Him.

So Jesus Christ who had no sin did not have to die. He took our sins, paid for them on the cross, came back from the dead and said that if we would believe that He did it for us. He had put this payment to our account and we get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did for us. I trusted Christ as my Savior. I know that I’m going to heaven when I die. And I hope that you have.

Do you believe that God is a good God? I believe He is a good God. And we need to be thankful because God is good. Now you may have bad things happen in your life, but God doesn’t do bad things to us. If you’re disobedient, God would allow chasting and so forth in your life. But if you’re certain Lord, those same things can happen to you and it’ll build your character, it’ll be a blessing to you based upon how you are between you and God because of the things that happen.

God knows what he’s doing and God loves you. And this is simply a song on Thanksgiving. Let’s pray, shall we? You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you are blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing tool free, 1-800-576-3771.

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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s message will be a blessing to you and your family. Alrighty, good to have you tonight. It’s Thanksgiving Day week. We should all learn to give thanks to the Lord. A Psalm of Thanksgiving, a Psalm of Thanksgiving. Psalm 75 one says unto the O God, do we give thanks? A lot of times we’re just gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, but the Lord likes to hear every once in a while, hey, thank you.

Thank you Lord. Thank the Lord for what you have. But I want you to take your Bible and turn to the hundredth Psalm. The hundredth Psalm, I want you to read it with me here. In verse one, read it out loud with me. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord, he is God. It is he that hath made us and not we ourselves.

We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise. Be thankful unto him and bless his name. For the Lord is good, his mercy in everlasting, and his truth endureth to all generation.” Isn’t that a great song? It really is. There’s seven things that I believe from these verses that we could be thankful for and should be. You’ll notice there in verse three where it says, Know ye that the Lord, He is God.

He is God. Did you know we might know that there is a God, but we would not know that Jehovah is God. The Lord, He is God. L-O-R-D caps is a reference to Jehovah Himself. And this is because God had revealed Himself unto us. We have a book that’s revealing the will of God. I have not seen, ear have not heard, neither has entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for them that love Him.

But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit. Yea, the Spirit searches all things, ye the deep things of God. For what man knew of the things of God, say the Spirit of man which is within him. Even though the things of God, no man can know, except the Spirit of God dwell within him. And then we compare spiritual things by spiritual means, and we know things that the natural man does not know because the things of God are spiritually discerned.

So we have a book that reveals to us the mind of God, the way of God. And so we are very fortunate that we have such a wonderful book that we can read and know about the true and living God. The next thing here is the word creation. And that is in verse three, if you look there, it is he that hath made us and not we ourselves. Now I know sometimes we hear about the I’m a self-made man.

Yeah. There was a couple of these, you know, scientists, atheists that said we can do anything that so-called God could have done. We can make man from the dust of the earth. So they thought they would just have a contest and they wanted to show that they could take dirt and make a man. So they reached down there to get them some dirt and a voice out of heaven said, get your own dirt. They couldn’t even start because they couldn’t even make dirt let alone a man.

God can make the dirt and God can take a body and form it from the dirt of the ground and breathe into his nostles, the breath of the blade man becomes a living soul. Look there in the 139th Psalm. Hold your place right here. But the 139th Psalm. And you’ll get a glimpse of just what David understood. Look how smart this guy was. Now, you know, either God gave him this wisdom, or he was a mighty smart man. I think God could have intervened and told him some wonderful things.

But what I want you to see about what God has done look down in verse 13 Verse 13 For a thou has possessed my reigns thou have covered me in my mother’s womb So he’s saying that God knew me when I was in my mama’s womb and God’s the one that formed my body He says in verse 14 good what he says I will praise thee For I am fearfully and wonderfully made Marvelous are thy works and that my soul knoweth the right will believe God made me God made me My substance was not hit from the when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest part of the earth Thine I did see my substance yet being unperth thee and in thy book all my members were written means it probably every hair you head to, which in continuance were fashion when is yet there was none of them.

How precious also get this are thy thoughts on the me, oh God. How great is the sum of them. In other words, God thinking about me. You think God has a lot of things on his mind. He got a lot of things to think about and then to realize God is up in heaven. Thank you about me. Did you know that when Christ went to the cross, when He was on the cross, what? I was on His mind. First time I ever heard that song, a lady from Lee Patton’s church, got up there and sung that song.

I had never heard it before. And I loved that song. I fell in love with it. When He was on the cross, I was on His mind. And that God so loved the world and His nobody that he loves more than me, but he loves me. He loves me. He loves you. And if that is true, then he has to think about me. If he died for my sin, then he had to think about me and my sin. He has all these thoughts.

And God thinks about me. If I should count them, they’re more in number than the sands. When I wake, I am still with thee. Surely, thou will slay the wicked, O God, and so on. Now look at verse 23. You and I are supposed to believe that God made us. He made us. So we examine ourselves and see is there any wicked way in me? Is there anything in my life that would hinder me from being what I should be with my heavenly Father?

Look what he says in verse 23. Search me, oh God, and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts. See if there be any wicked way and lead me in the way everlasting. This is what God wants you and I to do. God created us. So when you are thankful, you should be thankful that God had revealed himself. I guess we can be thankful that God made us. Take a look in the 19th Psalm. The 19th Psalm. is a mighty good psalm.

He kind of lets us know who’s running things around here. In verse one of the 19th psalm, the heavens declared the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork. Day, unto day, utter a speech, and night, and the night showeth knowledge. To believe, believe it or not, that every day the rotation of the year, the sun, the moon starts, all that teaches things. I believe in the very beginning before they had the Word of God, they all taught lessons.

I believe the 12 signs of the zodiac is not a wicked evil thing. I believe astrology has ruined it, but God in the beginning, I believe God started it. I believe they have signs and they they meant things. You can study the signs of the zodiac and there it’s actually it’s like the gospel in the stars. But anyway in verse 3 it says, there is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world.

And Demhati said a tabernacle for the sun. Just think how big the sun is. It would be 93 million miles away from the earth. Just big old ball of fire. And yet think of how many stars there are. How big they are and yet he was able to place this one here and place that one there and did this and All the stars all over the universe everywhere Have you ever wondered what’s at the end of the end? At the end of space, what’s out there then?

Is there no end to anything? It’s all interesting to me. But then he says, the the sun, every day when the sun goes to the heavens, it’s like a strong man running to win a race. And then lo and behold, it comes back to where it started and does it again because God has a course. And it says they’re in verse four, their line has gone throughout the earth and their words to the end of the world. to them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom cometh out of his chamber and rejoices a strong man to run a race.

His going forth is from the end of the heaven and his circuit unto the ends of it, and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. The law of the Lord is perfect, so he gets into the Word. So God made the world to reveal God, and God made His Word to reveal God. So if the world was made by God and the word was given by God, then the world and the word should agree. And it does. Evolution doesn’t agree with the world and the teaching of evolution doesn’t agree with God.

It does agree with the word. Evolution must be wrong. It is. But the law of the Lord is perfect talking about His word. And God has given it to us. In Luke, in verse 11, I want you to see this. Moreover, by them is thy servant, get this warned, and in keeping of them there is great reward. So there is the reason why God has given to us his word and revealed these things unto us, because we are his creation.

He not only made us, but he has a purpose for our creation. And that’s why we studied the word of God to see what is it that God wants us to know. And look down in verse 14, he says, let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be in your underlying this word be acceptable and thy sight, oh Lord, my strength and my redeemer. So we have in the word of God an admonition that though he made the world he also made us and he gave us his word which is perfect.

And by it, we are warned and that we are going to be rewarded based upon what we do with the word that we’ve heard. So as an individual, I am supposed to learn and to do that which is acceptable in God’s eyes. So we often do what we think is acceptable to us. You know, it pleases me. It’s what I want to do with my life. Yep, but it belongs to God. Number three, manifestation. In verse 5 there in the 100th Psalm, it makes the statement, God is good.

Did you know that for you to serve the Lord and to be happy serving the Lord, to be pleased and serving the Lord, you have to believe that God is good. If you don’t believe that God is good, you’ll have a serious problem walking with him. I have lived long enough to see and to believe with all my heart. God is a good God. What if God had been a bad God? What if God had been a mean God?

But the Bible says God is good. In the book of Acts it talks about Jesus Christ and everywhere he went. He went about doing good. Just doing good. Sometimes you may not get a chance to witness to somebody. You can still do good. Sometimes you don’t always get a chance to just challenge somebody’s servo, but you still do good. Just do good by people. Be kind because that’s what God is. Be loving because God is loving. Be forgiving because God is forgiving.

But God is good. David said this, and I want you to see this because it’s so good, hold your place right here and just look there in the 23rd Psalm. Most of the time we always use the 23rd Psalm at a funeral. But since nobody’s dying here tonight, as I know of, I want you to look at this as David gave it because he was a shepherd and he had sheep and he says, the Lord is my shepherd. So in verse 1 of the 23rd Psalm, he says, the Lord is my shepherd.

I shall not want. Want for what? the Lord you shepherd. Then you trust the shepherd to lead you, to guide you, provide for you. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the steel waters. He restored my soul. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yay, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I will fear no evil. For thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

Thou preparedst a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. Thou anorneth my head with oil, my cup runneth over.” And look in verse 6, this is what David said, Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord temporarily forever So David knew that he was going to be with the Lord forever But he also knew that he wasn’t there yet and going through this life is going to the valley of the shadow of death death, because at this time all of us live under the shadow of dying.

We don’t know if we’re going to die or if the raptor is going to take place. We all hope that the raptor takes place and we all get out of here without feeling any pain. I’ve never died before and I just don’t want to hurt. But I believe that God can give you dying grace, grace that you need for that moment. It’s called new grace, grace for the moment, the strength, the grace, power to do the will of God at the hour that you need it the most.

So I don’t have to worry about it. I just believe God will tell you, look, look at all the other saints that have already faced it and gone to heaven. If they can face it, we can face it and knows no reason for us to fear. I was thinking as far as the Lord goes, I believe I knew the Lord better than my mom. I believe I know the the Lord better than my two sisters that have already died.

And they can handle it. And they knew they were dying. Surely God will give me the grace that I need at that moment too. And I will fear no evil for thou art with me. Thy rotten thy staff, they comfort me. And he will lead me and guide me into still waters, restoreth my soul. All these things he’s going to do for us all because we are his people and the sheep of his pasture. He is our shepherd. Remember one time I preached a sermon on the great shepherd, the good shepherd?

And I added in there the chief shepherd, the three kinds of shepherds because of who Christ is and what He’s done for us. Look at number four. Number four there in the hundredth Psalm is it says we are His people. We ought to know who we are. This is our redemption because in order to be His people then we need to be redeemed and to be redeemed then somebody had to buy us. Somebody had to make a payment for us.

So you and I can look at it and say yes we believe that Jesus Christ died on the I’ve never had trust paid for all the sins of the world, and by faith alone, I have been redeemed into the family of God. God has done this for me, so I can be thankful that God had revealed Himself through His Son, Jesus Christ, and coming into the world, that he created me. I’m thankful that I have a chance to live.

I have enjoyed my so far 68 years of life. I don’t know how much time God’s gonna give me. It might be I’m on the downhill side of life. But then I might live to be, I mean after all Abraham he lived to be 175 years old. Remember He was old and an old man and he couldn’t even have a child and then Lord had to strengthen his body And then he wound up after sir. I got married again and had some more kids lived to be a hundred and seventy five a Lot thought he was I mean not like a joke thought he was gonna die and Yet God gave him some more kids and some more kids and some more kids.

It’s a more kid grandkids to the fourth generation after that. And it says that he died full of age. Well, of course, of that old. They say that, you know, cheese gets better with age. I don’t really know. Somebody tried to tell me that wine gets better with age. I wouldn’t know that either. But I do believe that we ought to enjoy life. We ought to enjoy life. God has been good to us. God is a good God and I can be thankful for all the things that he brought into my life.

Yes, I can look back and I can see a trail of tears. I’ve had a lot of times when I have spent time just crying to the Lord. You know, whining a little bit to the Lord. You’re a whine. I’ve done a lot of that. But God’s always brought me through. He’s always brought me through. I couldn’t always see how he’s gonna do it, but I always believed. God’s a good God. I don’t know how you’re gonna do it.

God’s a good God. And he knows who I am. He knows I’m his child. I’m in his family. And he’s good, and he loves me. And if I can just keep believing that, it didn’t matter what happens. My heavenly father walked with me. There’s a song that I learned years ago called, just me and my Lord, just me and my Lord, walking together, me and my Lord, walking alone. Even though you can have a husband or a wife and you can have kids and go to church and you all know all the people, there’s no substitute for just you and the Lord walking together.

Lord has to be real and precious to you. So he is our Redeemer. The number five restoration, the sheep of his pastor. Now if he’s the, with the sheep of his pastor, I mean it’s his responsibility to provide for us. You see the shepherd would lead the sheep and provide the green grass and make sure that there was some still waters. And the shepherd was gonna protect the sheep. You know, you can’t find anything dumber than a sheep, maybe a turkey.

But they are so naive. And that’s why sometimes people might call you, you turkey. That’s not a compliment. I am not a sheep without a shepherd. I have one. I know his name. And when I hear his voice, I want to follow him. The next word is restoration. of his pastor, he restored my soul. You ever get tired and weary and worn? Is it going to bed and resting such a wonderful invention? I love a bed. I love going to sleep.

Eating and sleeping are two wonderful inventions of God. It is so enjoyable. But anyway, the word justification, his mercy, his mercy. He had mercy upon us and his mercy, if it last forever, then it means I’m justified and I have mercy forever. See, once you’re saved, you’re always saved. Once you’re forgiven, you’re always forgiven. That’s what’s wonderful about the Lord. I have been redeemed. I’m justified just as if I had never sinned. That’s how I got to be part of his family.

I’ve got a lot to be thankful for. I’ve often wondered if somebody had not led me to the Lord when I was 18 years old, what would have ever happened to me? What I would have done. Would I have lived this long? I am so glad. God has intervened in my life and wrong my bell. And I am so glad that I know the Lord, but I’m glad that He knows me. And I’m just thankful for that. Every person living in America, all to be so thankful that we have the freedoms to believe like we believe and that we can serve the Lord without persecution.

But we might lose that someday, but we have this moment. We ought to do what we can with what we have where we are. And God bless us for it. The last word is inspiration. His truth endures to all generation. His truth is His word. And the Bible says concerning His word, thy word is truth. Thy word is truth from the book of John in chapter 17. Saint defy them through thy word, thy word is truth. It is inspired to believe that the word of God didn’t come from a man, but it came from God himself.

And that you and I have such a wonderful book that we can read and study it and get as close to the Lord as we wanna get. You can get as close to God as you want to. and nobody can stop you. You can be as holy of an individual, as godly of an individual as you want to be. You can be as dedicated to God as you want to be. Think that good. That’s something everybody ought to be thankful for.

But I believe that it’s good to be thankful to the Lord and let other people know that you’re thankful. And what are you thankful for? Because you see, a lot of people have an a rough time. Some people may not have a job. Some people may be facing surgery. A lot of people have a lot of problems that they just don’t know how they’re going to solve. And something that you say about what God means to you could be such an uplifting.

I love it in their life. People need help. People need encouragement. I only got so many stories to tell. I can only face so much. But see, y’all got things that God has taught you. God’s brought you through some things. But you keep serving the Lord and don’t let anything in this world stop you from doing what God wants you to do with your life. Look up here. This hand represent you and me and the wallet represents sin. We all have sin upon us.

us. We’re supposed to believe that it is He, God, that have made us. And even though He didn’t make us, He didn’t make us a sinner, that’s because we have some parents from down the road that decided to rebel against the Lord. And they send. And because they send, were given an old sinful nature, and that old sinful nature is why we commit all these sins. This does not make us a sinner. We do all these sins because we are a sinner.

And the Bible says that wages of sin is death, eternal separation from God in hell. But God loves us and wants us to have eternal life and to go to heaven. But we’re separated from God. That separation God calls death were separated. But God loves us and there’s nothing we can do to save ourselves. This hand represents Jesus Christ, He’s the Lord God and the flesh. He came into the world because He loves us, hates our sin because it separates us from Him.

So Jesus Christ who had no sin did not have to die. He took our sins, paid for them on the cross, came back from the dead and said that if we would believe that He did it for us. He had put this payment to our account and we get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did for us. I trusted Christ as my Savior. I know that I’m going to heaven when I die. And I hope that you have.

Do you believe that God is a good God? I believe He is a good God. And we need to be thankful because God is good. Now you may have bad things happen in your life, but God doesn’t do bad things to us. If you’re disobedient, God would allow chasting and so forth in your life. But if you’re certain Lord, those same things can happen to you and it’ll build your character, it’ll be a blessing to you based upon how you are between you and God because of the things that happen.

God knows what he’s doing and God loves you. And this is simply a song on Thanksgiving. Let’s pray, shall we? You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you are blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing tool free, 1-800-576-3771.

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I want you to take your Bible and turn to the book of Matthew in chapter 13, because Christ says these things that He’s going to teach us is to help us to understand all parables. Now, a parable is a way of telling the truth in a story form where those that want to know the truth will understand it, and those that really don’t want to know the truth won’t get it. It’s a tremendous way to teach. See, the Holy Spirit didn’t convict them like the Holy Spirit does today.

See, today we teach the Word of God and then we trust the Holy Spirit to take the truth and penetrate into a person’s mind so they can understand it. Nobody is one to the Lord because of our trickery, because we’re able to connive an individual. You can’t persuade them against their will because a person can’t truly trust Christ unless the Holy Spirit enlightens their mind and they see it. And when they see it, all they got to do is believe it.

just simply believe it. And there’s others that they deny the Holy Spirit, refuse to believe it. You can’t make somebody trust Christ as Savior. And when it comes to serving the Lord, that’s something else that you keep in mind as you can’t make anybody serve the Lord. But what we ought to do is to give them the opportunity, always striving to get opportunities. Because if I say, do you understand what he’s saying. To say, yes, I see what you’re saying.

I understand. That means you have light. That means that you’re going to be held accountable because the more you see and more you understand, the more accountability you have. So can ignorance be bliss? So I didn’t understand. I didn’t understand. I didn’t understand. Does God know when you really understand something. God knows. So you can’t fool God. So whenever you study the Scriptures, there’s things God wants you to know. Here in the book of Matthew in chapter 13, look there in verse three, and he spake many things unto them in parables.

Say, and behold, a sower went forth to sow. When he sowed, sunseeds fell by the wayside, and the files came and devoured them up. Some fell upon stony places where they had not much earth, and forth with they sprung up because they had no deepness of earth. When the sun was up they were scorched because they had no root they withered away. Some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprung up and choked them. But others fell upon good ground, and brought forth fruit.

Some a hundred fold, some sixty fold, some thirty fold, who had ears to hear, let him hear. So he just told them a parable. What does it mean? And in these scriptures there are four illustrations, four illustrations. And out of these four illustrations, some people are always trying to make, well, it’s say something that it doesn’t say. Tryingforced understand is just talking about how a man is saved. And if it’s talking about how a man is saved, well, it looks like a command can be saved for a while and then lose a salvation.

And so many people who teach that you can lose your salvation, remember when I talk about people who teach you can lose your salvation, I’m talking about preachers, missionaries, and there’s multitudes of them that go to the foreign fields and they teach from these scriptures of the opposite of what it really says. But the people out there that don’t know the Bible, they don’t understand. So it breaks your heart when you see what people are saying. I’ve listened many times to certain creatures on the radio and it just breaks my heart.

They listen to what they’re saying. If I’m a lost man sitting out there listening, I say, I ain’t got a chance. I ain’t got a ghost of a chance. Oh, I’d say to my mind, I can’t get saved because I just, I can’t live the life. I just can’t live the life. Or I’m too bad. Or I’ve tried before and they, no sense trying again because I just can’t live up to that high standard Because they will make it sound like you’ve got the performer, you’re not going to get it.

Then he says here in verse 10, and the disciples came and said in the hymns, why speakest thou unto them in parables? He answered and said unto them because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it’s not given. So we had a mixed audience, mixed group of people, even though the disciples didn’t really understand the parable either. He said, you’re speaking unto them in parables. They didn’t say, we don’t understand either, but they didn’t understand.

And the key to what Christ taught was always for people that wanted to know truth could understand the truth. So he says because it is given unto you the know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. So some people will never get it. They’ll never understand. But now he tells you why. It’s not because God has chosen a few people to believe and God has chosen another group of people not to believe.

And so it’s not their fault. They can’t choose Because God didn’t give them the faith to believe there are some people that teach When he says in Ephesians 2 8 9 for by grace or you say through faith and that not of yourself That is the gift of God. They say the gift there is faith and so you can’t be saved unless God gives you the gift of faith Therefore, it’s not your fault if you don’t believe Because God didn’t give you the faith to believe and so those that do believe is because God gave them the faith Well, that’s totally contrary to Scripture.

That means that if God didn’t give you the faith, you didn’t have the ability to believe, so why should you go to hell? That ain’t your fault. God says everybody’s got faith. It’s just a matter of where you want to place it. Salvation is the gift of God. It’s not faith. Faith is not a gift. Now there’s another place where it talks about faith being a gift, but that’s to the believers, to the church, and not for salvation. He makes a statement here because it is given under you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of heaven.

I had a man call me up this week. He says, what does it mean when it talks about the kingdom of heaven? He said, I need you to probably sit down with me and explain this to me and it’s going to take a while for me to get this through my head. I said, well, let me just tell you and then see if that’ll help. I said, the kingdom of God is the sphere of everything that belongs to God.

kingdom of God is God’s kingdom from eternity past to eternity future. I says, but the phrase kingdom of heaven refers to a pure time. The kingdom of heaven is when the king sets up his kingdom upon the earth. And that’s a thousand year reign upon the earth. So the kingdom of heaven is when Christ rules upon the earth. He says, I see it. He says, you’re not telling me no more. I got it. I got it. click. I said, it’s very simple.

So the kingdom of heaven is like an island in the sea of God’s eternity. So when you’re talking about the kingdom of heaven, God has given us some truths to explain this little island, this period of time that’s going to be a thousand years long and how you get into it and the seeds that are sown. And he says this kingdom is like like a mustard seed and it will grow and fill up all the earth, become a great mountain, mountains kingdom.

Then he makes a statement here in verse 12, looking verse 12, For whosoever hath to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundant, but whosoever hath not from him shall be taken away even that he hath. And you say, take away what? Give them what? The key here is understanding. See there in verse 13, therefore speak eye to them in parables because they see not hearing, they hear not. Neither do they, and here’s the word understand. They don’t understand.

Now God says, he that understand it, I will give him more. that doesn’t understand, well, lose the knowledge they already have, like they have already been given. See, if you don’t use it, what happens to it? You lose it. You see, I used to study the Bible, study the Bible, study the Bible, but you don’t use it, you lose it. Light will be taken away from you and you’ll find yourself walking and darkness, but it’ll happen so slowly, you don’t even know it.

It’s like your eyes going bad, but you don’t know they’re going bad. Sometimes I get my ears checked. She said, now is that better? I said, man, man, I ain’t got a clue. I said, I have to have it to compare it with something because I could take out my hearing aid. And if I don’t have my hearing aid, I don’t know if I’m hearing better or worse unless I’m comparing it with something that was how it was before.

So whenever I check in downstairs and I go on the computer trying to get my broadcast done, I look at the levels. And I know where I’ve got my sound speakers set. And if it gets to that certain level, I know how it sounds. Well if I put my hearing aid in, now I’m something I hear loud. I know this working pretty good. So if I don’t even put my hearing aid in, I don’t even know I don’t have it in because I don’t know I’m hearing it not hearing better or worse until you have something to compare it with.

I know it sounds strange, but it’s the way it is. You’ll notice in verse 14, and in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which said, by hearing you shall hear and shall not en- you ought to underline those two words, not understand. You will not perceive the last part of the verse, seeing you shall see and not perceive. So you can hear something, but you didn’t hear it. And you can see something, but you really didn’t hear it.

don’t see it. One time he was talking to his disciples and he was talking to them and then the Pharisees came along and he had made the statement about somebody being blind and then the Pharisees says, are you saying that we’re blind? We’re not blind. And Christ says, since you said you’re not blind, you say you see. So therefore your sin remaineth with you in the Gospel of John. Your sin remains because you see. See, when you don’t see and you don’t understand, there’s a certain amount of forgiveness there because there’s no knowledge.

Like there’s some people that are retarded, as you completely slow, where they don’t understand, they don’t grasp. They don’t have the same responsibility. Even you and I don’t require of them the same thing you do if somebody else is supposed to be normal. Are you a normal Christian? Or you have normal? As a Christian, are you a retard, you don’t get it, you don’t see, you don’t understand. Now you don’t want to say that about yourself, do you? So if you say, well I understand what he’s talking about, greater than what?

Responsibility. Because the more light and the more you say, I perceive, I see it, I see it, I understand. Alright, you’re gonna give a count for that. More light, more expected. And then you’ll notice also, they’re in verse 15, for this people’s heart is waxed gross. Their ears are all of hearing their eyes as they have closed, less at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and you are on the line, these two words should understand, should understand with their heart and should be converted, I should heal them.

We see, you can’t get saved to understand. That’s why we’re always trying to help a person to understand you are a sinner. Do you understand that? Sometimes I’ve gone through the hand gesture step by step one phrase at a time and this is represent you and me. We are all sinners. Do you know what a sinner is? And prove that point. And the wages of sinner’s death, that means eternal separation from God. Do you understand what I’m saying? Because you trying to get them to follow you.

But when he says, I understand, I understand, I understand, I understand when they get through and they say, well, do you understand? All that you can do is trust Christ as your Savior. And if they understand all that, see, then it’s easier to get them to say, yes, I’ll trust Christ. But come, they understand. But when they don’t understand, don’t keep going on. You got to stop and get them to see this point because you move on to the next thing.

They don’t see that. They don’t perceive. And they have to have a certain amount of understanding. So that’s why you had to make the gospel clear. And the gospel is not clear because you understand what you said. The gospel is clear when the lost man understands what you said. So he makes this statement here in verse 16, but blessed are your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear. Now you want to be a blessed individual. How many of you have ever said, Lord, I want you to bless me.

Bless me. You want to be blessed. I just want God to bless me with what? Good hearing and good vision. Now I’ve wear glasses and I’ve got a hearing aid. So I’m not talking about a physical body. More than anything else in this life, you should want to hear what God has to say. You want see what he means and see the future, have spiritual eyesight because without it, what do you have? You don’t have anything. And the scripture talked about Christians in the book of 2 Peter being blind, blind, blind Christians because they cannot see a far off.

They have no vision for the future. Now notice what he says here in verse 17, for verily I say unto you that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see and have not seen them.” Now he’s talking about Old Testament saints because the promises were given to them and they lived their whole life without ever seeing the fulfillment of those promises but they like Abraham believed in a far country and believed the promise of God that it was going to happen.

And look for a city whose builder and maker was God. So he says here and they have not seen them. They have not heard them. And verse 18, here ye therefore the parable of the sore. Now when he explains the parable, it’s to give people understanding. Because after he gets through, he says to his disciples in another scripture, he says, do you understand? Do you understand what I’m saying? I’ve wondered many times that after I’ve preached so many sermons, and I’ve wondered how many people have actually understood what I’ve said.

Because if you really hear it and listen to it and you believe it, it should change a person’s life. If you go on like you never heard anything, you didn’t see anything, then he said it’s like a man that looks in the mirror, and behold his face, and then he goes out the way and immediately forgets what he saw. like it didn’t make a difference. And the scripture says be ye doers of the word and not hearers only. So why do you hear the word so you can be a doer of the word?

And if you don’t become a doer of the word then what’s the reason for hearing the word? It’s not just so we can just tickle our fancy, it’s for a reason. In verse 18 he says, hear ye there for the parable of the when anyone heareth the word of the kingdom and understandeth it. Now, understands, that’s a very important word, understandeth it, not, then come of the wicked one and catches the way that which was sown in his heart.

This is he which received seed by the wayside, but he that received the seed in the stony places, the same as he that heareth the word and immediately would joy receive at this. Yet hath he not root in himself but dirt for a while, for when tribulation or persecution rises because of the word by and by he is offended. He also that receive of seed among the forms is he that heareth the word and the care of this world and that his seedfulness of riches choked the word and he become unfruitful.

But he that receive of seed into the good ground is He that here at the Word and understandeth it, which also beareth fruit, bringeth forth some hundred fold, some sixty and some thirty. Not everybody brings forth the same amount of fruit, but those that did understand it and were fruitful brought forth fruit. So every one of these illustrations here, there’s four of them. Can you tell me which one refers to the lost man and which one refers to the safe man?

So if you looked at all four of these illustrations, how many refer to the saved and how many refer to the lost man? Alright, now look there at the first one. When it says in verse 19, he explains it in verse 1 what is going on trying to get him to understand. When When you’re talking about these illustrations down through here, there’s four, and the first one where he makes the statement that the seed that fell up by the wayside is the devil, and the devil is the one that steal the seed away before the person gets the chance to receive it.

and he says there in verse 19, see, and then comeeth the wicked one and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received the seed by the wayside, but he understandeth it what not he didn’t understand. And the reason he didn’t understand is because when the seed was given the birds of the air that gets the seed by the wayside, he refers to as the devil that feels the seed from the mind before he believes it.

That’s the lost man, he doesn’t understand. Verse 20 is the saved man. How do you know? The same is he that he wrote the word and immediately with joy, received it that he understands, he receives it. It says, yet had he not root in himself, but dureth for a while. So he saved, he endures for a a while. And so you see why some people say then for when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, he is offended.

But he started. He believed, starts serving, but he is like the person who has no root. And if you don’t have any roots down into the word of God, you’re not going to stay strong. And so the person is not going to be fruitful. shade. Verse 22, he also that received seed among the forens is he that hearth the word and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches showed the word and he became unproof. So he did believe it.

He did understand, but he’s not fruitful. See it always boiled down, okay, neither you’re saved. Are you or are you not fruitful? Verse 23, but he that receive it seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word and understandeth it, which also bear fruit and bring it forth some, a hundredth pole, some sixty and some thirty. So he gives us a very simple illustration and there is four stories in one story. There’s only one sower and as you sow the seed some people are not going to understand it at all.

So always remember when you’re witnessing not everybody will hear and understand it. Some are going to hear it and believe it but never do anything with it. And some are going to believe it and start off but they get choked up with the things of the world. and never become fruitful. And some are going to hear it and believe it and become fruitful in their life and some a hundred fold, some sixty and some thirty fold. So you don’t win everybody, but you will win somebody.

And so it’s a tremendous thing now. Take your Bible, look in Mark chapter four and notice you’ll get just a little bit clear understanding because now this same parable is used again. In Mark chapter 4, look in verse 13, and He said unto them, No you not this parable. How then shall you know all parables? The soar soeth the word. These are they by the wayside where the word is sown, but when they have heard Satan commit immediately and take it the way the word that was sown in their heart.

So the bird that came along the wayside and got the seed that the sower sows is a pitcher of the devil who steals the word from the person’s mind. Unless he should understand and believe it. Then he says there in verse 16 and these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground who when they have heard the word immediately receive it with gladness. So they receive the word and have no root in themselves. So endure but for a time afterwards when affliction or persecution arises for the words say immediately they are and what’s that word you are not online they’re offended.

Have you ever seen people that can come to church and the preacher say one word and they get so offended they don’t come back. That’s scripture. That’s scripture. You can witness to somebody and say just the wrong thing and buddy they don’t and they do it anymore. They write you off at the drop of a hat, so easily offended. And then he makes a statement here in verse 18, and these are they which are sown among forms, such as hear the word, they hear it, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches and the lust of other things entering in showed the word and it become unfruitful.

So the reason that you sow seed is so that everything comes up and bears fruit. God created the whole heavens and the earth. They created this world and created all the animals to reproduce and all the plants to reproduce and all the fruit trees to reproduce and everything reproduces after it’s on everything reproduces. Everything letting reproduces. And so when God creates a Christian, a saved man, a saved man is to reproduce. And so everything is based around this. Now look what he says in verse 20.

These are they which are sewn on good ground, such as hear the word and receive it and bring forth fruit, some thirty full, some sixty and some a hundred. Now look there in Luke chapter eight. Now notice in verse four, now if you read chapter 13 first of the book of Matthew, it kind of gives you a visual picture and it’s the best one. Then you get to the book of Mark, it’s not as much, but it’s got a little bit more detail concerning of what it means in the explanation.

Book of Luke gives you just a tad more. In the Gospel Luke in chapter eight, look in verse four, when much people were gathered together and we’re come to Him out of every city. He spake by a parable. Hey, so were went out to sow His seed. And as he sowed, some fell by the wayside, and it was trodden down in the files of the air devoured it. Some fell upon a rock, and as soon as it was sprung up it whithered away because it lacked moisture.

Some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it. And others fell on good ground and sprang up and bear fruit, a hundredthole. And when he had said these things he cried, he the half an ear to hear, let him hear. Now you heard a prayer about, do you? understand what he’s saying. Now a lot of people will listen to the parable of the sower. See I know that not heard the parable of the sower but they never apply it to themselves.

Did you realize that you are represented in one of these parables? One of these is you. Now you figure out which one it is. You’re one of them. Now notice in verse five there’s nothing in here about the seed springing forth, coming forth. It just simply said it was trodden down the fouls of the air devoured it, but we know what the birds of the air represent, the devil that stole the seed so that they wouldn’t hear and understand.

Then it says there in verse 6 there’s a word there. I want you to know in the line it called sprung up. As some fell upon a rock and as soon as it was sprung up that That means it germinated. That means it came forth into life. That’s why the first one is a lost man in verse 5. Of verse 6 is a saved man but withered away because it lacked moisture. Like we have a lot of teenagers that came to ranch.

Some of those teenagers believe it or not, we may never see what’s going to happen with some of those kids. You know some of those kids that came to ranch gave us nothing but headache. One day may be evangelist and pastors of some churches, radio evangelist, you have no idea. You say, I’ll have a, you don’t, don’t, don’t kind of short. See, I’ve lived long enough and I’ve already seen the results. I’ve seen what people have done. But the reason they fall by the way, I see sometimes because they didn’t get any moisture, they didn’t get any nurturing because we let them slip through the cracks.

Look at verse eight. Others fell on good ground and here’s two words. up. Spring up. In verse 7 it’s talked about and some fell among thorns and the thorns spring up with it. So they did spring up but also other things did too and choked it out. But you see there’s life in verse 6 and there’s life in verse 7 and there’s life in verse 8. Some fell all on good ground and spring up and bear fruit a hundred fold.

Not do you get it? See how simple it is? Did you understand the parable. You really understand what Jesus was saying. He says, there’s things like in this world the cares of this world, the riches of this world is what causes a lot of God’s people not to be fruitful. And yet God says that some fell upon good ground and sprang up. You’ve been listening to Bible line, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

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Well, I hope y’all had a good Thanksgiving day, week, and all that kind of stuff. And I eat a lot of good stuff. Does y’all eat a lot? Somebody sent me this email. I’m already doing church, but I just want to share with you now. Wishing you all a happy Thanksgiving. May your stuffings be tasty. May your turkey be plump. May your potatoes and gravy have an area of lump. May your yams be delicious. May your pies take the prize.

May your Thanksgiving dinner stay off of your thighs. gobble to you wobble. And above all, give thanks to the Lord for all he hath done. So did you gobble to you wobble? Now you got to admit that pretty good now. You got to have a little humor along the way. Anyway, take your Bible and turn to the book of 2 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians chapter 6. 2 Corinthians chapter 6, here a little, and there a little, learning all the time.

Sometimes you don’t learn a lot of new stuff, you just get refreshed on what you already know. These scriptures, you probably have seen them a mini a time. But just look at it one more time. I want you to see something here. The first one, we then as workers together, with Him, beseech you also that you receive not the grace of God in vain. I like those words workers together. We’re workers together. It’s not all about who gets to be the big shot and all that.

We’re just all a bunch of little shots. We all put our feet on the floor the same way. And those are no big eyes and little ears. Everybody’s the same. serve the Lord do what we can, wherever we are, and thank the Lord for Him. But He says here that BC is also that you see not the grace of God in vain. In other words, the privilege of serving the Lord is not bestowed upon you in vain. Because you and I, we don’t deserve the time that God has given to us.

We don’t deserve it. That’s grace. The opportunity this side of the grave to serve the Lord, That’s grace. For the indwelling Holy Spirit, that’s grace. To be given to the new birth, to have His word, that’s grace. We didn’t deserve this, but these are things God has given to us. And He says, I pray that these things are not given to you in vain. And so some people get sidetracked. He don’t stay too focused too well. So He says in verse 2, for He saith, I have heard the inner time accepted and in the day of salvation have I Socrates.

Behold, and you ought to underline this word now, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. Now is the time. And if now is the time for the loss to be saved, then now must be the time for the saved to witness. Duh. Don’t that make sense? So it’s always in season. I used to love to go out hunting, deer hunting, rabbit hunting. And I hated to wait so long for the next season. You had to wait a year.

Did you know that soul winning is always in season? And you’ve already been given a not a temporary license. You’ve got a permanent license. You can go anytime, anywhere. All you got to do is find a lost person. You got the weapons. And then he makes a statement in verse 3, giving no offense in anything that the ministry be not blamed. You see, the overall thing about what we’re doing The cause is more important than you and I as an individual because you don’t want to say and do things that would cause the ministry to be blamed.

And here in Corinthians, these Christians were not too concerned about the testimony they had as a church. It was only about themselves and that’s why they were filled with envy and jealousy, bitterness and you become very critical. You find fault with everything and everybody. But when you see that God wants to use everybody and your part sometimes in serving the Lord is getting others to serve the Lord. And your example is very important and all this takes timing. So he says in verse 4, but in all things, approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonment, in tomolds, in labors, in watchings, and fasting, by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love and fame, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honor

this honor by evil reports and good reports as deceivers and yet true regardless that the ministry be not blamed. You just keep doing right regardless of everything else. And behold, now is the time for people to trust the Lord. Don’t look upon the harvest and say we got four months, behold, it’s ripe already for harvest. Now, I want to ask you a question. is the best year to get saved. What’s the best year to get saved? All right, now listen, I’ve got up here.

There’s a 10-year-old boy standing over there. There’s a 50-year-old man standing right here. There’s a 90-year-old man standing over there. No, it’s not Jay. The overstand over here. So we got a 10-year-old, we got a 50-year-old, and we’ve got a 90-year-old. is the best time for a person to get saved. What would be the best year? 10, 50, or 90. Now, this is a very difficult question, I understand that. How many of you would say 10? How many would say 50?

Some of you? How many would say 90? A few of y’all say that? Y’all are all mixed above. Are all of the above? All of the above. Well, if you believed, if you believed that you could lose your salvation, do you believe you can lose your salvation? If you believed you could lose your salvation, which would be the best year to be saved? 10, 50 or 90. Huh? Look how many of y’all said 90. And the reason is because you have less time to lose it, right?

If you get saved when you’re 90, chances are you’re not going to have to battle too much with the flesh. Maybe. You don’t know some 90-year-olds that I know. So if you could lose your salvation, then the consensus is it’d be better to get saved when you’re 90 years old so that you have less time to lose your salvation. Or would that be the reason why you would say that? What if you died 89? What if you died 70?

Oh, so you don’t really want to wait that long. But if you could lose your salvation, you see the 10-year-old kid has got most of his sinning ahead of him. I mean, you don’t take a 3-year-old kid to trust the Lord. the Lord just saved me from a life of crime. Delivered me from all of my sins. He did all of his sin and after he got saved. But see, there is a problem with people that believe you can lose your salvation.

Because if you can get saved when you’re 10, you run a greater risk because of the length of time. You’ve got more opportunities to lose your salvation. Now. The one thing that most people don’t think about is this. When they think you can lose your salvation, it’s generally based upon the idea that you did something really, really bad. Little things don’t count. Big sins. You can’t tell me you can commit adultery or murder. And then still go to heaven.

The telling of lie or being envious or jealous never enters their mind. Because they isolate those little sins from those big sins and if I don’t do those big sins, I’m good to go Well that all sounds Maybe good a little bit. It’s bad theology But think about this if God can save a man when he’s ten years old Boy when he’s ten years old and God can save a man when he’s fifty years old and God can save a man when he’s 90 years old If this man that’s 90 years old, let’s just pretend that he has broken every law there is.

Not just one of the 10 commandments. I say he broke all 10 of them. He’s been on drugs and you name the sin and he’s done it. He has as guilty as guilty can be. He’s done it all. And he’s 90 years old. Can God still save him regardless of all the bad things that he’s done? people say, yeah. So he could have a deathbed conversion laying on his deathbed. And after ninety years of wicked living in that one moment, he can trust Christ to save you and go to heaven.

Now does that sound fair? But is it true? Can God do that? But now most people who believe you can lose your salvation say that this little ten year old boy, he can He gets saved. But if He does any of these bad things down the road, He’ll lose His salvation. Isn’t it amazing that God can save that 90-year-old man who has done all of those things but can’t keep that 10-year-old boy saved because He committed some of those things after He was saved?

So he would be better off to be lost and get saved when he’s 90 then run the risk of losing all these years. Something that just doesn’t add up, it just doesn’t make any sense. But believe it or not, people who believe you can lose your salvation don’t understand. That this 90 year old man, and that 10 year old boy, and this 50 year old man, could be the same guy. Because you were 10, you were 50, and now you’re our nanny.

So when is the best time to get saved? And you and I know the best time for a man to get saved is as soon as possible. As soon as possible. Because God gives him eternal salvation. And what most people that think you can lose your salvation don’t understand is that when Christ died for that person, God didn’t die for his sins up to the time he was 10, or up to the time he was 50. Or up to the time he was 90.

He paid for all the sins from the time he’s born till the time that he dies, whatever that might be. All the sin of every man, once and for all. So that’s why we say that whenever you trust Christ to save your nearly age, all these sins have already been paid. Because if the man doesn’t trust the Lord there, and he lives to be 50, the Lord still paid for all these sins. But if He doesn’t trust the Lord here, wait till He’s 90.

God still paid for all of those sins too. Because Christ only died one time. He didn’t die three different times. He only died one time for the sin of this man forever. So when we believe that it’s by grace, we have no trouble believing that God not only can save the kid, but keep him saved. So that when He gets 50, He’s still saved. And when he gets 90, he’s still saved. Now that’s what we believe. But people that believe you can lose your salvation can’t believe that God can keep them saved.

And because they don’t understand grace, because they say, well, you don’t deserve that. Did the 90 year old man who had lived his whole life in sin and yet trust Christ is his savior? Now God can save him and that’s okay. Because he’s nine years old! But what about the person who trusts the Lord when he’s ten? And he does all this after he’s saved and he still gets to go to heaven. Wouldn’t that be grace? That would be grace.

So we are saved by grace. Now take your Bible looking 2nd Corinthians in chapter 11. 2nd Corinthians in chapter 11. It makes the statement about being, you know, Corrupted. See there in verse three. But I fear less by any means as the serpent begali through his subtlety. So your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. When you get away from the simplicity of the gospel, you’ll have a false Jesus, a false gospel and a false spirit that’s mentioned in verse four.

Three things will be false. Those false things is because there’s false teachers. False teachers teach false things. Now look at in verse 13. For such are false apostles, deceitful workers. They’re deceitful. People who teach you can lose your salvation are deceitful. One is they have to deceive themselves first of all. And the reason they deceive themselves is because if they really and really believe that you’ve got to live a certain way to maintain your salvation so that you don’t lose it, they never know if they already have lost it.

And they are not living as good as they’re preaching that they do. I’ve heard people say, I haven’t sinned in 40 years. What’s he doing when he says that? He’s lying. Why can’t he see that he’s He’s lying because He deceived. Because He’s not counting as a sin what God’s Word counts as a sin. And they think that if I don’t do those certain bad things, I’m okay, but they never think about the sins of the mind. And they don’t mind that if they get bitter and hateful and filled with jealousy and envy and just hateful, but they don’t see that as that bad.

yet that’s what the Lord says. So they can keep their salvation if they don’t do too bad, too long. But he means that they can lose it so they never know when they’ve lost their salvation. So they deceive themselves, but not only do they deceive themselves, they deceive other people into believing the same thing. And if it’s one thing for an individual to say, well, it doesn’t hurt nobody but me. But if you die and you go to hell and you taught other people to believe what you believe and they go to hell, is it affecting only you?

So there’s false teachers who teach false things and they are believed. People believe it and there is a consequence. So look what he Verse 15, therefore is no great thing if his minister. So you know, and I know that Satan has his ministers and his ministers are ministers of righteousness, but it’s human righteousness, not the righteousness of God, but it’s the righteousness of man. And so they will teach that, you know, you have to do something. They always use the word your trusting Christ, but, and then they butt it all over the place.

They’re not really trusting Christ. They’re depending upon their works for their salvation, because bad works cost them their salvation. Now take your Bible and turn to the book of Matthew, Chapter seven, Matthew, and Chapter seven. Matthew Chapter seven. You’ve seen these, these verses an awful lot, but I want you to see this there in verse 15. be aware of false prophets. Today we would say, be aware of false preachers. Are there false preachers on radio and television? I don’t believe you all said that.

And there’s false preachers behind the pulpit. How do you know I’m not? You’re going to have to check with the book. And if you don’t know your Bible, I could teach you anything. But if you know the book. You judge and discern whether or not is that right or is that wrong? And many people in many churches cannot listen to other preachers on radio or TV or in other churches because they cannot discern whether they’re right or they’re wrong.

And they just go by, oh, the choir was so great. Air condition, padded pews. Lazy boy chairs, they’ll sit in. I thought about, we ought to go to that, you know, have a lazy boy chairs. And then had the ladies coming here was a little lemonade, please. A little lemonade, coffee, tea. I bet we could really increase the attendance, you know, doing something like that. And then of course, if you want to have a donut while we’re eating, you know, Gary’s all favor for that.

I mean, I’ll be back right now. It’s licking his chops. Now, look there in Matthew in chapter 7 and verse 15, beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep’s clothing. It means they’re disguising themselves. They’re trying to give you the impression that they are a sheep, but what are they? They are a wolf. It means they come to devour you, to make merchandise of you, to use you. They don’t care about your soul. They don’t love you.

People who are not saved by grace are trying to earn their way to heaven. So you are only a means of them trying to earn their way to heaven, you’re not the object of their love, it’s themselves. Because they have to do certain things to try to merit or deserve to go to heaven when they die. But anyway, in verse 16, you shall know them, the false teachers, the false prophets by their fruit, by their message. And you must compare their message with the message of grace.

And the message of grace, the gospel is that it must be free and it must last forever. If it’s not free, it’s not the gospel. If it doesn’t last forever, it’s not the gospel. See how simple it is? So if you look there in verse 21, not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but they are expecting to get in, aren’t they? They are expecting something that will never happen. Why? Because some false teachers convinced them of this.

To me, I think murder is a great crime. I think adultery is a great crime. Raping is a great crime. There’s a lot of things that are just terrible in our world. But to me, one of the worst crimes that anybody can ever do is to give somebody a false hope, a false message on how to go to heaven. And then a person who believes that false message spends an eternity in hell forever. That’s worse than anything else than anybody else could ever do to anyone.

That’s why I think it’s gonna be greater judgment because people added to the Word of God. And said that God said, and God said, I didn’t say that. And so he says in verse 22, many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, many, not a few, many. So there must be more people that are trusting in their works. And why are they trusting in their work? Because somebody doesn’t understand grace, because they don’t know it’s free. And there’s people that don’t understand the gospel and then there’s false teachers.

And they’re leading people astray. and there’s a great price to pay for what is being done. I think it’s a shame, it really is. Now if you read this and it says in the last part of this verse verse 23, then will I profess unto them I never knew you. Now that you were saved once but now you’re not saved anymore. So he says I never knew you. So that 10 year old boy, If he got saved and never got lost and go to hell, if he ever was saved, then God knows him as his child.

He knows he believed. Well, if he can sin and then lose his salvation, then how can Jesus say, I never knew you? So no saved man can ever get lost. Because it would be impossible for Jesus to say, I never knew you. You see, one of the things about going to heaven is when you can say, I know the Lord. And the other side of that is the Lord knows me. And he says, and we have this confidence, this foundation, this seal.

The Lord knoweth them that are His. The Lord knoweth them that are His. So if that ten year old boy ever belonged to the Lord, then he must still belong to the Lord. And if this fifty year old man trusts Christ as Savior, then God knows him. And God can never lose him because God can’t say, I never knew you. So I can’t go to hell in the future. Once the Lord knows you and you know him, it’s forever.

You’re his child forever. Now, wolves in sheep’s clothing try to get a person to focus upon their life, their work, because Satan knows the only thing that ruins grace is works. And not one work of man can save himself. I’ve heard people say, you know, and I asked the Lord to help me. When I saw I couldn’t save myself, I asked the Lord to help me. I’ve heard people make this statement. I’ve heard preachers make that statement. I don’t need him to help me get to heaven.

I need him to take me to heaven without my help. He doesn’t need my help. He doesn’t want my help. Because then it means that I have a part in saving myself. Jesus is not someone who comes alongside of me to help me live good enough to get to heaven. Now, he’s a paraclete. He does come alongside. He is a comforter to help me, to lead and guide me and all these things like that, but not to save me.

He saved me by Himself. He had by Himself, pushed ourselves, by Himself. He didn’t need my help. He don’t need your help. Salvation is truly, that’s what it says it is, the gift of God. Now, take your Bible and turn over there to the book of Matthew chapter 23. Matthew 23. This is a very interesting person of Scripture because you’re talking to religious people, religious people. And he’s talking here and says in verse 1, then, spake Jesus to the multitude and to his disciples, saying the scribes and the Pharisees said in Moses’ seed.

In other words, they judge, make decisions, all that stuff. But he makes a statement over here in verse 13. He says, but woe unto you scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites, and get this for ye shut up the kingdom of God against men. In the word what they said and the way they lived, they violated the Word of God. They added to the Word of God and corrupted the word of God and made their traditions the commandments of God. And so Jesus pulls no punches.

He gets right between the eyes and he makes this statement, for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer you or permit ye them that are entering to go in. There’s people who want to go in. There’s people, But because he says, you have blinded, you have deceived, you have lied, and you said, God said, and God didn’t say that. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tappa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message.

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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s concluding message of this teaching will be a blessing to you and your family. People who teach you can lose your salvation are deceitful. One is they have to deceive themselves first of all. And the reason they deceive themselves is because if they really and really believe that you’ve got to live a certain way to maintain your salvation so that you don’t lose it, they never know if they already have lost it.

And they are not living as good as they’re preaching that they do. I’ve heard people say, I haven’t sinned in 40 years. What’s he doing when he says that? He’s lying. Why can’t he see that he’s lying? Because he’s deceived. Because he’s not counting as a sin, what God’s word counts as a sin. And they think that if I don’t do those certain bad things, I’m okay, but they never think about the sins of the mind. And they don’t mind that if they get bitter and hateful and filled with jealousy and envy and just hateful.

But they don’t see that as that bad. And yet that’s what the Lord says. So they can keep their salvation if they don’t do too bad, too long. But He makes it so they can lose it so they never know when they’ve lost their salvation. So they deceived themselves, but not only do they deceive themselves, they deceive other people into believing the same thing. And if it’s one thing for an individual to say, well, it doesn’t hurt nobody but me.

But if you die and you go to hell and you taught other people to believe what you believe and they go to hell. Is it affecting only you? So there’s false teachers who teach false things and they are believed. People believe it and there is a consequence. So look what he says. Verse 15, therefore is no great thing if his minister. So you know and I know that Satan has his ministers and his ministers are ministers of righteousness, but it’s human righteousness, not the righteousness of God, but it’s the righteousness of man.

And so they will teach that, you know, you have to do something. They always use the word your trusting Christ, but, and then they butt it all over the place. They’re not really trusting Christ. They’re they’re depending upon their works for their salvation, because bad works cost them their salvation. Now take your Bible and turn to the book of Matthew chapter seven, Matthew and chapter seven. Matthew chapter seven, you’ve seen these verses an awful lot, but I want you to see this, they’re in verse 15.

Beware of false prophets. Today we would say beware of false preachers. Are there false preachers on radio and television? I don’t believe y’all said that. And there’s false preachers behind the pulpit. How do you know I’m not? You’re going to have to check with the book. And if you don’t know your Bible, I could teach you anything. But if you know the book, you judge and discern whether the knot, is that right or is that wrong? And many people in many churches cannot listen to other preachers on radio or TV or in other churches because they cannot discern whether they’re right or they’re wrong.

And they just go by, oh, the choir was so great. Air condition padded pews. Lazy boy chairs, they’ll sit in. I thought about, we ought to go to that, you know, have lazy boy chairs. And then have the ladies come in here with a little lemonade please, a little lemonade coffee, too. I bet we could really increase the attendance, you know, doing something like that. And then of course if you want to have a donut while we’re eating, you know.

Gary’s all favor for that. I mean, I’m here back here, right now, it’s licking his chops. in verse 15, be aware of false prophets which come to you in sheep’s clothing. It means they’re disguising themselves. They’re trying to give you the impression that they are a sheep, but what are they? They are a wolf. It means they come to devour you, to make merchandise of you, to use you. They don’t care about your soul. They don’t love you. People who are not saved by grace, are trying to earn their way to heaven.

So you are only a means of them trying to earn their way to heaven. You’re not the object of their love. It’s themselves. Because they have to do certain things to try to merit or deserve to go to heaven when they die. But anyway, in verse 16, you shall know them, the false teachers, the false prophet by their through by their message. And you must compare their message with the message of grace. And the message of grace, the gospel is that it must be free and it must last forever.

If it’s not free, it’s not the gospel. If it doesn’t last forever, it’s not the gospel. See how simple it is? So if you look there in verse 21, not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but they are expecting to get in aren’t they? They are expecting something that will never happen. Why? Because some false teachers convinced them of this. To me I think murder is a great crime. I think adultery is a great crime.

Raping is a a great crime. There’s a lot of things that are just terrible in our world. But to me, one of the worst crimes that anybody can ever do is to give somebody a false hope, a false message on how to go to heaven. And then a person who believes that false message spends an eternity in hell forever. That’s worse than anything else than anybody else could ever do to anyone. That’s what I think is going to be greater judgment because people added to the Word of God and said that God said and God said, I didn’t say that.

And so he says in verse 22, many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, many, not a few, many. So there must be more people that are trusting in their works. And why are they trusting in their work? Because somebody doesn’t understand grace because they don’t know it’s free. And there’s people that don’t understand the gospel and there’s false teachers and They’re leading people astray and there’s a great Price to pay for what is being done. I Think it’s a shame it really is Now if you read this and It says in the last part of this verse verse 23 Then will I profess unto them?

I never knew you. Now that you were saved once, but now you’re not saved anymore. Cause he says, I never knew you. So that 10 year old boy, if he got saved and never got lost and go to hell, if he ever was saved, then God knows him as his child. He knows he believed. Well, if he can sin and then lose his salvation, then how can Jesus say, I never knew you? So no saved man can ever get lost.

Because it would be impossible for Jesus to say, I never know you. You see, one of the things about going to heaven is when you can say, I know the Lord. And the other side of that is, the Lord knows me. And he says, and we have this confidence, this foundation, this seal. The Lord knoweth them that are His. the Lord knoweth them that are His. So if that 10 year old boy ever belong to the Lord, then he must still belong to the Lord.

And if this 50 year old man, trust Christ is Savior, then God knows Him and God can never lose Him because God can’t say, I never knew you. So I can’t go to hell in the future. Once the Lord knows you and you know Him, it’s forever. You’re his child forever. Now wolves in sheep’s clothing try to get a person to focus upon their life, their works, because Satan knows the only thing that ruins grace is works. And not one work of man can save himself.

I’ve heard people say, you know, and I asked the Lord to help me. When I saw I couldn’t save myself, I asked the Lord to help me. I’ve heard people make this statement. I’ve heard preachers make that statement. I don’t need him to help me get to heaven. I need him to take me to heaven without my help. He doesn’t need my help. He doesn’t want my help because then it means that I have a part in saving myself.

Jesus is not someone who comes alongside of me to help me live good enough to get to heaven. Now, he’s a paraclete. He does come alongside. He is a comforter to help me, to lead and guide me, and all these things like that. But not to save me. He saved me by himself. He had by himself purged us by himself. He didn’t need my help. He don’t need your help. Salvation is truly just what it says it is, the gift of God.

Now, take your Bible and turn over there to the book of Matthew chapter 23. Matthew chapter 23, this is a very interesting person of scripture because you’re talking to religious people, religious people. And he’s talking here and says in verse 1, then speak Jesus to the multitude and to his disciples, saying the scribes and the Pharisees said in Moses’ seed. In other words, they judge, make decisions, all that stuff. But He makes a statement over here in verse 13.

He says, but woe unto you scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites, and get this, for ye shut up the kingdom of God against men. In the word what they said, and the way they lived, they violated the word of God. They added to the Word of God and corrupted the Word of God and made their traditions the commandments of God. And so Jesus pulls no punches. He gets right between the eyes. And He makes His statement, for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer you or permit ye them that are entering to go in.

There’s people who want to go in. people, but because he says, you have blinded, you have deceived, you have lied, and you said, God said, and God didn’t say that. And notice what he says in verse 14, woe unto you scribes and Pharisees and hypocrites. He says, for ye devour at widows’ houses, for a pretense, make long prayers, so that people can see you, you do it to be seen of men, And they’ll think it’s your holy and you walk around in certain guard, but you’re supposed to do.

But he says, you have added so many more laws. It made it so hard upon the people. If you look down there in verse four, he says, for they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be born, lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. but all their works they do for to be seen of men. They make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders of their garments, love the uppermost rooms at fees and the chief seats in the synagogue.

They do it all to be seen. They want people to look up to them as though we’re some great thing and he says, you shut the door to yourselves and others that you could have made a difference. Look what he says here in verse 15. He’s in verse 15, whoa under you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. He says, for ye compass, see, and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Not only have you taught this person a lie, but now that person will teach a lie. And lies are being told. And people are not being told the truth. This is what makes Calvary Community Church so important. This is what makes our radio broadcast so important. You say, well everybody’s got the same message. No they don’t. Not all churches are the same. Not all preachers are the same. You’ll find there’s a lot of preachers that can preach circles around me better, but you can’t find one preacher that’s got a better message than what I’ve got.

Because the gospel, is powerful. If you just tell it like it is, make it clear, make it simple. These teenagers are learning something at a very young age that most adults never catch. Not only to know the clarity of the gospel but how to present the gospel and if you do they get results. But what if all adults did what some of these teenagers are doing. We could turn the world upside down. They did it in the New Testament time.

And it says that they did this and they spread the Word. But most people don’t want to spread the Word. They’re scared. Or they live in their own little world. Behold, now is the day of salvation. Now is the day of salvation. Now must be the time to share the gospel and to give it. But look what he says in that last verse again in verse 16. Woe unto ye blind guides. Would you like to take a tour and have a blind guide?

I mean, would you like to take a trip in a car and go to Georgia and Tom soaks be your driver? Sorry about that, Tom. But he can’t see. Why follow a guy that can’t see? If a man doesn’t know for sure he’s going to heaven, why would you want to listen to him. And yet there’s people that will support missionaries and things like that and false teachers and they get all the money they want and somebody that’s clear in the gospel, sometimes you always have to ask for help and let people know and say, look, we’re trying to reach people for the gospel and you have to plead with people.

You think, man, if you found somebody that would make the gospel clear, man, let’s get the people out to hear it. That’s what we used to do would ranch. The kids will always bring kids to ranch because they know if when they got to ranch they knew that we would give the gospel. Every week we’d give the gospel. In church we try to always give the gospel. So that if a lost man is listening he should know how to get to heaven.

When a person comes to church they ought to know how to get to heaven. That is a gift and that is free. So even at the end of the service whenever we’re closing it down. Did you know that’s where we were headed all along? All the singing, the specials, the preaching, all is focused upon probably the last five minutes of the service. You’re trying to get a person to make decisions. Mainly a lost man to trust the Lord. And a Christian to serve the Lord.

So there’s only those two things, winning and training. And so that’s why it’s so important. I want you to take your Bible and look there in verse 24. Look in verse 24 of Matthew chapter 23 and it says here in verse 24, ye blind, ye blind guides which strain at a net, swallow a camel. You can’t tell me God doesn’t have a sense of humor. He says, woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you may clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

But thou blind Pharisee cleansed first that which is within the cup and the platter that the outside of them may be clean also.” You see, when a person is doing their best to earn their salvation by their works. They go by what men see of them. And so they try to deceive you and look at me because of what I’m doing the way I am, I must be right. And they’re trying to earn their way to heaven, but they don’t look on the inside of themselves.

He says, first, get the inside taken care of and the outside should take care of itself. Have you ever heard that little statement like when you go fishing? Yeah, we catch him, he clean them. We catch him, he can clean them. I can’t clean fish. In reality, I don’t like to clean fish. I don’t mind eating the fish, but I really don’t like cleaning fish. I love it when we go fishing and somebody else cleans them. Isn’t that wonderful?

But I like to catch them. I don’t even mind if they put the worm on the hook. I do want to have a part in it so I cast it. And I don’t mind getting them into the boat. But when you get close, I want somebody else getting that and getting that and getting that. So there’s things that you can love about the Lord’s work and there might be some things you don’t like but we’re workers and Labors together as we work in the vineyard But look at this he’s talking about the inside in the outside the person who believes they can lose their Salvation is always about the sins that somebody can see that’s really bad The ones on the inside of them how they think and feel their motives their bitterness, their hatred, all those things like that.

See, you can’t see all of that sometime it comes through though. But they don’t think that that’s that bad. And yet they think they’re going to heaven because of how pure they’re living their lives. And that they’re so good and they’re so holy they become hippo crits. All people who believe you can lose your salvation and are going to church trying to live good enough are hypocrites. Am I making myself clear? I didn’t write the Bible, but this is talking about people that do the very same thing that people are doing today.

This, if Christ was here today, this is what He would still say about the religious people that are trying to save themselves by their works. They deceived themselves and then they do everything to make one little proselyte and then they teach that person to teach somebody else to full child of hell and it just multiplies. So unless somebody teaches the truth then they will not know. Luke what he says here in verse 27, woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like unto white encephalus.

You know what a seperica is? It’s a grave. It’s a grave, a casket, open it up full of dead men’s bones. White encephalus, which indeed appear on the outside, beautiful outward. You know who he’s talking about? He’s talking about people that are trying to save themselves by their works. And people who are trying to earn their way to heaven because they don’t trust Christ as their Savior and they don’t see how bad they really are. They actually, there’s people who think they’re saving themselves because they’re good enough.

They think they are. They are deceived and they will fight for their belief just as much as you’ll fight for your belief. And they’ll believes that they’re right. Look what else she says, but are within full of dead men’s bones and of all uncleanness. So in verse 28, even so ye also outwardly appear righteous on the men. You appear righteous on the men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. This is how God sees them. So there are people who do not see and understand just how bad they really are.

That’s why we talk about having a holy God, a perfect God. Heaven is a perfect place and that you must be perfect to enter into heaven and people don’t understand they’re not perfect. They think they’re pretty good but everybody ought to understand they’re not perfect. And so to go to heaven you have to be as perfect, as righteous, as just as holy as God. Only by seeing the Lord, can you see how far short you have come? The word, harmatano means to miss the mark, miss the mark of perfection.

You and I have all come short of God’s righteousness and we need to be justified, just as if I have never sinned. So how can I get to where I look like I have never sinned? Only by his righteousness been given to me. So, when I believe that Christ died on the cross, paid for my sins, He gives me His righteousness as a free gift, I get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did for me. And God said, if I believed that He did it for me, He would give me as a free gift everlasting life and I get to go to heaven.

And that is a gift. So the ten-year-old boy, if a person is ten years old, can God save a ten-year-old? Sure. Can God save a man that’s 50? Yeah. Can God save a man that’s 90? Yeah. See, God can save anybody. I talked to a man this week. He says, you don’t know how many people I’ve killed. He’d like to say that to me. He says, you don’t know how many people I’ve killed. But anyway, I kept talking to him.

It wasn’t long before he trusts me. to learn. To hit people understand, He paid it all for everybody. So, regardless of who you are and whatever you’ve done or ever will do, God can save anybody at any time. All that they have to do is believe that when He died on the cross, He paid for their sins. Or you might believe He paid for the sins of the world, but that doesn’t get you to heaven. You He must believe He did it for me.

Christ died for my sins so that I don’t have to pay for my sins. Because if He paid for them, I don’t have to. And so all that I have to do is believe He did it for me and He puts that payment to my account. And I go to heaven on what He did and He says, I will in no wise ever cast you out. He said, He will never lose you. He said that no man can pluck you out of my hand.

See the word of God says that whenever you trust Him as your Savior, you’re saved from hell. It means you can’t go there. Two in inheritance that’s incorruptible and undefiled, that faith, if not a way, reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God through faith and desalvation. you put your faith in Christ to save you. He saves you forever and reserves for you a place in heaven and will never cast you out and never lose you.”

Now buddy, that’s some pretty good news. That’s what we have. Let’s pray, shall we? Our Father, we thank you so much for all you’ve done for us. We’re thankful for the free gift of eternal life. We pray, Lord, that You’d help us to be found faithful to the clarity, the truth of the gospel. And Lord, we know that there’s a lot of people that’s never heard. So whether it’s the teenagers or the adults or whether the preachers, we preach, and so people believe, we ask your blessings upon the service today and that as different ones listen, we pray that they would understand that the only thing they can do is to trust Jesus Christ and Him alone is their only hope of going to heaven.

And Father, we ask Your blessings upon the service to follow, that Father, should anyone come in these doors and have never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ, the good news on how they can be justified by faith alone. We pray, Lord, they would hear it, and that would be found faithful in presenting it, and that people would come to know You as their Savior. We pray, Lord, that you’d help us to point out the era of the false teachers, those that are hypocritical, the Pharisees that add works to salvation.

And even though they may mean well, it’s a damning message. And Father, we thank you for this church and these good people and all that you’ve done for us in Christ’s name we pray, Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you are blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free.

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I am preaching today on the subject, saved, saved, saved. So how can you be saved three times? Well, that’s what I want to tell you about. I knew you was curious. In your notes, I have a little topic called the two basic beliefs for Christians. To always keep it in mind is salvation and service. Salvation, simple, service, a little bit more complex. But one is dealing with how you get to heaven. And there are three tenses to our salvation.

We’re saved, saved, saved. And to that I want to address. If you look at number one, the three tenses of salvation, past tense, present tense, and future tense. So I am saved. I’ve been saved. I am being saved. And one day I will be saved. Now a lot of people take that to me. Well, I finally got on the right road and now I’ve got to keep working for my salvation. And I, if I keep hanging in there and walk that straight and narrow way, one day in the future, I will be saved.

Now I’m not talking about that stuff. That’s junk. I ain’t talking about that. I’m talking about saved, saved, saved. So will you explain that I’m going to just be patient But here in the Bible in Acts 16 look there in Acts chapter 16 and verse 31 tremendous portion of Scripture We often hear it called the story of the Philippian jailer Look at in verse 25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed saying praises unto God and the prisoners heard them.

I wonder where they were. They were in prison. Have you ever wanted a jail ministry? This is amazing. We do everything we possibly can to stay out of jail. I think that greatest day of our lives is going to be when God puts some of us in jail. You, I’ll come and visit you. In verse 26, and suddenly there was a great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were shaken and immediately all the doors were open and everyone’s bands were loosed and the keeper of the prison awakened out of his sleep and seeing the prison doors open he drew out his sword and would have killed himself supposing that the prisoners had been fled but Paul said it into him or cried with a loud voice do thyself no harm but we’re all here then he called for a light and spring and he came trembling and fell down before

Paul and Silas and brought them out and says sirs what must I do to be saved now if there’s any question that deserves a good answer, this is the right question. Because he asked the right question. He even asked the right question to the right person because he knew how to be saved. But look what he said. Now if you’re going to give an answer, you ought to give the truth of an answer. If you’re going to tell the truth, it ought to be the truth.

This is it. And they said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, keep the Ten Commandments, go to Calvary Community Church, pay 50% and behave yourself for the rest of your life and you might make it. Now that’s the way most people read that verse and you’ll be saved until you sin again. They had all that stuff in it. That ain’t what he said. All he said was, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved. And if your house belemed it, they’ll be saved.

So they went there and preached the gospel of them and all of them believed it. So all they had to do to be saved was to believe on the Lord. Trusting Christ as their Savior. Because God, he made a promise that if you believe it, then He would save you and give you eternal life. Isn’t that what He said? He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I have eternal life. Because 50 years ago I accepted Christ as my Savior.

Now turning your Bible to the book of Ephesians in chapter two. Ephesians chapter two. Now these verses are tremendous. They’re my two favorite verses in the Bible. Ephesians two, eight and nine. Here in Ephesians chapter two verse eight and nine. For by grace are you saved through faith. Are you saved? That’s past it. That’s a done deal. So I have been saved. So when we say I have been saved, it means that I have been saved from the penalty of sin.

It means that I won’t have to go to hell and pay for my sins. I’ve already been saved from that. I have known for over 50 years that I’m going to heaven whenever I die, because see, I can’t go to hell. I can’t go there and pay for my sins because I’ve already been saved from hell. It’s a done and God can’t change that because He gave His Word. He said, if I trusted Him, He would save me. He is the Savior of the world, but He’s not yours until you trust Him.

So I trusted Him and He has become my Savior. So I have been saved, saved from the penalty of sin. So anyone who trusts Christ as Savior, that’s what we mean by being saved. means you’re saved from something. One of the things that I noticed over there is that three times that I’ve preached in three different churches, the one time that I preached a little stronger on hell and why we need to be saved. Why tell people you need to be saved if they don’t know what they need to be saved from?

Don’t that make sense? You gotta have, what am I being saved from? So there’s churches today and preaches today that don’t wanna say anything about hell because that makes people feel uncomfortable. Well, blessed be God, how can you talk to him about being saved then? How can you ask that you need to be saved? For what? Unless they understand there’s a literal fire burning hell. And you need to be saved from that. So in the one meeting on a Thursday night, and you had all these kids, I mean a lot of kids, I wanted those kids to know that there is a place called hell.

And I’ve explained it a little bit more in more in detail because I wanted them to make sure they understood that if I don’t trust Christ as my Savior, there is an alternative. I mean, there is a result. There’s consequences to not trusting the Lord. And so that by the time I got through and I explained to them how to have eternal life and why they need to trust Christ as their Savior because there is a literal hell, that’s when it was this like a one big sweep the whole room and all of it one time.

At two churches, I didn’t elaborate on it long enough. And if I could do it over again, I would do it again and I would sit stronger. But it never even came into my mind until after I got through, I talked, yes, about being saved. I gave the gospel and so forth and I would need to trust the Lord. I explained all of that, but I didn’t make it real enough into the people’s minds. So I think that I need to get better at it.

I need to realize there’s something that’s behind all of it. I don’t need a Savior if there’s no place to be saved from. And so whenever you trust Christ to save you, you’re saved from hell to an inheritance. It’s incorruptible and undefiled that fate if not away reserved in heaven for you. So I know that when I trust Christ is my Savior, I’m being saved from something to something. So I have been saved from the penalty of sin. I’ll look there at this next statement.

Present tense, I am being saved from the power of sin in my life. So I have been saved from hell. I’ve been saved from the penalty of sin. In my life, I want you to understand this. When God saved you, He did not do away with your sinful nature. You still have a sinful nature. That’s why you still think wrong and do wrong and make mistakes and all kind of stuff. We have wrong actions, wrong thoughts, wrong words. That’s because we still have an old sinful nature.

Dwelling within us. But the day you trusted Christ as your Savior, say the Holy Spirit of God lives within you and your body becomes the temple of God. Now the Holy Spirit living within you is to teach you the word of God to give you the power that you need over the power of the old sinful nature. You see, whenever you’re born in the world, you have an old sinful nature. God didn’t change it. That’s why you still have the desire to do things that are wrong.

Even though you’ve been saved from the penalties and you can’t go to hell now. For all eternity, you can’t go to hell. Never have to worry about that again. But in my life, maybe God will give me 10 years to live. Maybe 15 years to live. For me, it’s been almost 51 years that I’ve had to live since I trusted Christ as my savior. Well, God also, at the moment I trusted him as my Savior, gave me the indwelling Holy Spirit, who is the power of God that I need in my life because he’ll teach me what the Word of God says, so I’ll know what’s really right and really wrong, based upon what God says and not left upon my own imagination to decide.

It’s what God’s Word says, and that’s the truth. So the Bible says that I am to be saved in my present life from the power of the sin, for nature that I have, only by the divine nature that He gave me. So when I trusted Christ as my Savior, God gave me the Holy Spirit. That’s also along with the divine nature that helps me over the sinful nature, so that I have power in my life, not to let the sins of the nature that I have overrule and ruin my testimony.

So I am in my life being saved from the power of sin in my life. So I can say, yes, I have been saved from the penalty of sin. I am being saved in my Christian life as I walk with the Lord from the power of sin that’s still in my body. And one of these days whenever we leave the soul world, see this old body is going to die. And when the body is dead, the old sinful nature is in my body.

It’s not in my soul. God washed my soul wide as snow and made me spiritually alive. If you will, they’re looking Galatians in chapter one. I won’t just see the Galatians chapter one, first of all. Galatians in chapter one. Look in verse 4, in verse 4. Galatians chapter 1 verse 4, he says, Who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father, to whom be glory forever and ever, amen.

See, there’s this present evil world that we live in. I need the power of God in my life to help me to have victory over this present evil world that I live in. You see, there’s a world out there that says, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, desire me, want me, want me, want me. And there’s a word of God that says love not the things of the world, but the things of God.

Sit your affections on things that are above, not on the things that are below. So as a child of God, I don’t have the strength to do that, but by the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit, who gives me the power that I need, according to his word, and if you don’t study the word of God, you see, that’s what the Holy Spirit uses. The sword of the spirit is the word of God. And so when you study the word of God, you’re gaining the toll by which the Holy Spirit uses to give you the power that you need in various certain stances and will bring to your remembers the thing that you’ve studied but if you haven’t studied it you don’t know it you will have no power in your life you can have the Holy Spirit but the power that the Holy Spirit uses is the

Word of God and no word no power and that’s why many Christians are not powerful in their life they’ve already lost their testimony or been set on the shelf and not used by the Lord. And yet they may want to be, but they will not discipline themselves. So God says that we need to have this done. Look in verse 16 of chapter 5. Verse 16 of chapter 5. This I say then, walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Walking in the Spirit means yielding yourself to the power of the Holy Spirit as you read the Word of God and study the Word of God and you apply it to your life. It’ll give you the strength and grace that you need not to yield to the lust of the flesh. You still have the lust of the flesh. It’s still there. You can still think wrong but what can help me not to think wrong is thinking right but you got to know what’s right.

So you can rightly discern what the word of God is talking about. So you need the Holy spirit power in your Christian life. And that is to help you to save you from the presence of sin in your life, having power over your life and ruining your testimony. So God, yes, wants to save me from myself, from that old sinful nature that you have. And if you don’t walk with the Lord, you’re not going to have the victory in your Christian life that you what to have.

Now you see when you list down through here in verses 19 on down when he says the works of the flesh are blah blah blah blah. This is what walking in the spirit can save you from. It can save you from… otherwise if you don’t walk in the Spirit, yield yourself to the Lord, you will walk in the flesh and you will fulfill the lust of the flesh. Maybe not every one of these, but majority of them, yes you will, because God’s Word says so.

So if that’s not what you want, then you’re going to have to have an alternative. What can give you the power that you need over the desires of sin in this world? What is that restraint upon your life? And I believe the Holy Spirit within you causes you to restrain yourself. As it says in the book of 2 Corinthians in chapter 5, where he talks about in verse 14, for the love of Christ constraineth us. It means it motivates you.

It gives you the power that you need, so that you will do the things that God wants you to do, and not the things that the world wants you to do, wants you to do or the flesh wants you to do. So the world of God is good for it. Now look in verse 22. Verse 22 says, but the fruit of the Spirit is love and joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness and goodness and faith. This is what God wants you to have in your life.

Does that mean all of God’s children have this? No. No they don’t. Is it what God wants? Yes, because some Christians will not have any power of the Lord in their life. They’re saved, they’re going to heaven when they die, but there is no change in their life. Does that mean they’re not saved? No, no, it has nothing to do with that. They’re saved from hell because they accepted the payment Christ made on the cross for them. They believe what God said and they trusted Him.

That’s what keeps you from having to suffer in hell. But you may not have any change in your life. And still, yes, you’ll go to heaven because of what Christ did, not because of what you did. God didn’t save you based upon, well, you promise that you’re going to really change your life and deliver yourself from all these wicked things. No, God didn’t do that. There’s no prerequisite. It’s just believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.

That’s from the penalty of sin. Now in your life, do you believe it’s God’s will that his children change their lives? I believe God wants there to be a change in my life. And I can say, yes, I am not the same guy that I used to be. Lord has done a work on me and in me and through me. If I had never become a preacher, I will still just as saved. And I’ll go to heaven just as quick as the apostle Paul or anybody else, because of what Christ did for me.

That’s getting to heaven, but I’m not there yet. In my life, I want the will of God in my life. I want there to be a change in my life. I want to grow stronger in my life. But I know I can’t grow strong without the word of God. Desire, the sincere milk of the word that you may grow thereby. That’s the tool that the Holy Spirit uses in your life. That’s why I want you to come to Sunday School.

That’s why I want you in church. That’s why I want you here on Sunday night and Wednesday, when you can. And if you possibly can do it, because I want to feed you the word of God. Because I know there is no other power that can save you from the lust of the flesh or from loving the things of the world except the power that’s found in the Word of God. Are you getting my drift? Now follow me. Now, I can’t make you do anything and you know that.

I know that. Because if I was God, I would. But I’m not God, so I can’t. All I can do is tell you things. I have no power over you, no control over you. I’m not a dictator, I’m not God, I’m not the Holy Spirit, I’m just a man, just a man, just like you. But something happened to me when I was 18 years old. I started studying the Bible, and the Word of God got into me. And I began to think about how I began to think about this and that.

What I wanted to do with my life, what I wanted to accomplish, accomplish where I wanted to go. It began to really play tricks in my mind and I battled back and forth. The will of man versus the Word of God. And I’ll tell you, I fought some battles. But I’m so glad that I went ahead and just did what the Word of God said do. And now 50 years later, as I look back, I can see how God has blessed.

And it’s not because somebody’s better than somebody else’s because there’s somewhere along the line. The Holy Spirit works in your life. And you begin to grow a little bit, and you’re learning a little bit more, and you grow some more, and you wanna do something. You wanna accomplish something with you. You don’t wanna waste your life. You know that everything in this world is gonna pass away. It’s not gonna last. So why try to be able to mansion here?

It’s gonna pass. But what I accomplish for the Lord, that’s what’s important. That’s what’s important for you, and it should be. And I want you to see that look there in the book of Ephesians in chapter 2, Ephesians chapter 2, look in verse 10. And verse 10 says, for we are His workmanship. He’s the one that saved you and now He wants to continue working on you. You see, He gave you eternal life. He’s already saved you from hell.

Now you’re going to heaven and He’s the one that’s doing the work. And he makes a statement, well we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works. You see this is what God wants in your life. Now you may not perform. You still say from the penalty of sin, but you will not have the power that you need to be saved from the power of sin in your life. And that’s where a lot of Christians have ruined their life.

They’re ruined their testimony because they will not do what God wants them to do. And because of that, there’s a price to pay. But look at the last part of it. He says, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in that we should. Should. Not that you have to or that you will. Is it possible for a lost man to defy the will of God? Yes. God is not willing that any should perish. That means nobody’s going to perish?

No, they still will. Why? Because they can defy the will of God. But there’s a price for doing so. Can a Christian defy the will of God for his life? Yes. God wants us to perform these good words. That’s why He left us here. But you can say no. I ain’t gonna do it. Well, does that mean God’s not gonna keep His word and save you? No, because He’s… See, His promise was not based upon you. His word, based upon His word.

He promised. And He’ll never catch you out. He’ll never lose you for no reason. We go to heaven on what He promised. Not what we promise. But as a child of God, God said, if I would serve Him here, He said He would bless my life. Well, after 50 years, I should be able to look over my life and say, well, did He keep His word? Yes, He did. He’s done just like He said He would do. And I’m looking forward to the day when I get to heaven.

Because I believe I’m gonna see thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people that elected Christ over the years. But you see, that’s because somewhere along the line, you have to dedicate your life to him inside. I’m going to serve the Lord. So God wants to save us from the power of sin in our lives. Now, look at letter C. Talk about the future tense, the future tense. I will be saved from the very presence of sin when I die or when Christ returns for me.

Turning your Bible to the book of Romans in chapter 13. I want to see this verse. Romans in chapter 13. Romans chapter 13, I went to look there in verse 11. Verse 11 says, and that knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep, for now is our salvation near than when we believed. So we believed his past tense. So salvation is near now. In other words, is this the result of, I’ve finally been good and I’ve been having myself and now God’s going to take me on home and I finally earned the right to go to heaven.

No, no, that’s not what he’s saying. See, I have been saved when I believed on Christ. God saved me and gave me the free gift of eternal life. I became his child. Now I can say this, it’s been 50 years ago. So now I am here 50 years down the line. But I can also say that now my salvation is near that when I believed. salvation of what? When I say no, no, no, no, no, no. See, I’m going to be saved one day from the very presence of sin.

I won’t be here. God’s going to take me out. God’s going to save me out of this world. It’s going to take me clean out of it. So I’m looking forward to my deliverance from this world and from the sin in the world. You see, I believe on Him and that saved from the penalty of sin. I am now being saved from the power of sin, and the day will come when we’ll be saved from the very presence of sin.

We won’t be in its presence anymore. And God says heaven, there is no unrighteousness there. That’s why not even a lie. No sin can enter heaven because heaven is a perfect place. So I have been saved, saved, saved. It ain’t all over yet, but it’s as good as done. Because when that takes place, I’m out of here. And I will not have this old body with this old sinful nature. I won’t have to worry anymore about having victory over the flesh and so forth.

The battle is over. All the war is over. I don’t know about you, but you can get mighty tired and weary in this old life. You can get weary and well doing. Doing right, but you get weary and God says, don’t become weary and well doing. For you, shall we, you’re going to reap. It’s just down the road. Just don’t worry about it. Just be patient. We’ll reap in this life what we sow. So down. The next thing to understand, this is about salvation.

You got that clear. Two things about the Christian that he needs to always remember. One is salvation. I have been saved, I am being saved, and I will be saved. That’s how simple that is. That’s your whole life. Now the next part is on service. On this thing about service to understand these three little simple things. Look there at number one, a letter A, Chastening. Hebrews chapter 12 and verse 7, I want you to look at it real quick.

Hebrews and chapter 12. you trusted Christ as your Savior? Yes, your God’s child. You say, well, what if I don’t serve the Lord? Okay. God will not make you. Now He’ll make you wish you had of, but He won’t make you serve Him. But look what He says in verse 5, chapter 12 and verse 5. These are very important verses to understand. So in verse 5 He said, and you have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children.

My son despised not thou the chasting of the Lord nor faint when thou art rebuked of him. Did you know that your heavenly Father who gave you birth, you’re his child born into his family and in this life. Now remember you’ve already been saved from the penalty of saying you ain’t going to hell. That’s an issue you don’t have to worry about again. But in my life to understand that if I do not serve God the way God wants me to servant, my heavenly Father says, I can choose to rebel, but he will choose the form of punishment.

Isn’t that fair? You can choose the sin and he can choose how to punish it. And you don’t know exactly when or how he’s going to do that. That’s the mysteries. God doesn’t tell us everything. And how God disciplines one person doesn’t mean he’s going to do another one the same way. Well, Well, I saw them do it and get away with it. Men every time I do something, I never get away with it. And I swear it’s been with my life.

Kids can do all kinds of mess up in school, but men, let me try it. One time I get nailed. I always get caught. I often wonder how come my mama, and you know, you say this, she had an eye in the back of her head. She had eyes in the back of her head. Well, she just knows her kids were both down to. But God is always watching, and He wants to bless us, but sometimes He has to chasten us because we refuse to do what God wants us to do.

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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s concluding message of this teaching will be a blessing to you and your family. I can’t make you do anything and you know that. I know that. Because if I was God, I would. But I’m not God, so I can’t. All I can do is tell you things. I have no power over you, no control over you. I’m not a dictator, I’m not God, I’m not the Holy Spirit.

I’m just a man. Just a man, just like you. But something happened to me when I was 18 years old. I started studying the Bible. And the Word of God got into me. And I began to think about how I began to think about this and that. What I wanted to do with my life. What I wanted to accomplish. Where I wanted to go. It began to really play tricks in my mind and I battled back and forth the will of man versus the Word of God.

And I’ll tell you, I fought some battles. But I’m so glad that I went ahead and just did what the Word of God said do. And now 50 years later, as I look back, I can see how God has blessed. And it’s not because somebody’s better than somebody else’s because they’re somewhere along the line, because the Holy Spirit works in your life. And you begin to grow a little bit, and you’re learning a little bit more, and you grow some more, and you want to do something, you want to accomplish something, and you don’t want to waste your life.

You know that everything in this world is going to pass away. It’s not going to last. So why try to be able to mansion here? It’s going to pass. But what I accomplish for the Lord, that’s what’s important. That’s what’s important for you and it should be. And I want you to see that, look there in the book of Ephesians in chapter two, Ephesians chapter two, look in verse 10. And verse 10 says, for we are His workmanship. He’s the one that saved you.

Now he wants to continue working on you. You see, he gave you eternal life. He’s already saved you from hell. Now you’re going to heaven and he’s the one that’s doing the work. And he makes a statement. Well, we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works. You see, this is what God wants in your life. Now, you may not perform. You’re still saved from the penalty of sin, but you will not have the power that you need to be saved from the power of sin in your life.

And that’s where a lot of Christians have ruined their life, they’re ruined their testimony because they will not do what God wants them to do. And because of that, there’s a price to pay. But look at the last part of it. He says, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in that we should, should. Not that you have to or that you will. Is it possible for a lost man to defy the will of God? Yes. God is not willing that any should perish.

That means nobody’s going to perish? No, they still will. Why? Because they can defy the will of God. But there’s a price for doing so. Can a Christian defy the will of God for his life? Yes. God wants us to perform these good works. That’s why He left us here. But you can say no. I ain’t going to do it. Well does that mean God’s not going to keep His Word and save you? No, because His promise was not based upon you.

His Word is based upon His Word. He promised and he’ll never cast you out. He’ll never lose you for no reason. We go to heaven on what he promised, not what we promised. But as a child of God, God said, if I would serve him here, he said he would bless my life. Well after 50 years I should be able to look over my life and say, well did he keep his word? Yes, he did. He’s done just like he said he would do.

And I’m looking forward to the day when I get to heaven because I believe I’m going to see thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people that have led to Christ over the years. But you see, that’s because somewhere along the line, you have to dedicate your life to him and say, I’m going to serve the Lord. So God wants to save us from the power of sin in our lives. Now look at letter C, talking about the future tense, the future tense.

I will be saved from the very presence of sin when I die or when Christ returns for me. Turning your Bible to the book of Romans in chapter 13. I want to see this verse. Romans in chapter 13. I want you to look there in verse 11. Verse 11 says, and that knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep for now is our salvation near than when we believed. So we believed his past tense.

So salvation is near now. In the words, is this the result of I’ve finally been good and I’ve been haven myself and now God’s gonna going to take me on home and I finally earned the right to go to heaven. No, no, that’s not what he’s saying. See, I have been saved when I believed on Christ. God saved me and gave me the free gift of eternal life. I became his child. Now, I can say this. It’s been 50 years ago.

So now I am here 50 years down the line. But I can also say that now my salvation is near than when I believed. salvation of what? When I say, no, no, no, no, no, no. See, I’m going to be saved one day from the very presence of sin. I won’t be here. God’s going to take me out. God’s going to save me out of this world. It’s going to take me clean out of it. So I’m looking forward to my deliverance from this world and from the sin in the world.

You see, I believe on him and that saved me from the penalty of sin. I am now being saved from the power of sin and the day will come when we’ll be saved from the very presence of sin. We won’t be in its presence anymore. And God says heaven, there is no unrighteousness there. That’s why not even a lie. No sin can enter heaven because heaven is a perfect place. So I have been saved, saved, saved. It ain’t all over yet, but it’s as good as done.

Because when that takes place, I’m out of here. And I will not have this old body with this old sinful nature. I won’t have to worry anymore about having victory over the flesh and so forth. The battle is over. All the war is over. I don’t know about you, but you can get mighty tired and weary in this old life. You can get weary doing right, but you get weary and God says, don’t become weary and well doing. For you showers, you’re going to reap.

It’s just down the road. Just don’t worry about it. Just be patient. We’ll reap in this life what we sow. So down. The next thing to understand, this is about salvation. You got that clear. Two things about the Christian that he needs to always remember. One is salvation. I have been saved. I am being saved and I will be saved. be saved. That’s your whole life. Now the next part is on service. On this thing about service to understand these three little simple things.

Look there at number one, a letter A, chastening. Hebrews chapter 12 and verse 7, I want you to look at it real quick, Hebrews and chapter 12, after you’ve trusted Christ as your Savior, yes, your God’s child, you say, well, what if I don’t serve the Lord. Okay, God will not make you. Now He’ll make you wish you had of, but He won’t make you serve Him. But look what He says in verse 5, chapter 12 and verse 5.

These are very important verses to understand. So in verse 5 He said, and you have forgotten the exhortation which speak unto you as unto children. My son despised not thou the chastening of Lord nor faint when thou art rebuked of him. Did you know that your heavenly Father who gave you birth you’re his child born into his family and in this life. Now remember you’ve already been saved from the penalty of sin. You ain’t going to hell. That’s an issue you don’t have to worry about again.

But in my life to understand that if I do not serve God the way God wants me to serve him, My heavenly Father says, I can choose to rebel, but He will choose the form of punishment. Isn’t that fair? You can choose the sin and He can choose how to punish it. Ooh. And you don’t know exactly when or how He’s going to do that. That’s the mysteries. God doesn’t tell us everything. And how God disciplines one person doesn’t mean He’s going to do another one the same way.

Well, I saw them do it and get away with it. Man, every time I do something, I never get away with it. That’s where it’s been with my life. Kids can do all kind of mess up in school, but men, let me try it. One time I get nailed. I always get caught. I often wonder how come my mama, and you know you say that she had an eye in the back of her head. She dies in the back of her head.

Well, she just knows her kids were bolt onto. But God is always watching. And he wants to bless us. But sometimes he has to change. because we refuse to do what God wants us to do. And so it says our Heavenly Father is going to chase in you. He’s going to whoop you, for what it means. He’s going to spank you just like you would your child. Like we used to do when we weren’t afraid of the government. That’s why we don’t have that in discipline anymore because we’re afraid of the government going to take away our children.

You got to take your child, go to the social service and say, here’s my child. Now we’re going to have a decision. Either you raise them or I’m going to raise them. You want to raise them? You take them. I can’t take them, go ahead. If I can’t raise my child, then I don’t need my child. I can’t help my child. You can’t raise a child, correct, unless you have the right to discipline to correct a child. In the day we didn’t got so afraid, we can’t do anything with them.

And then we wind up raising a bunch of these little monsters and then they’re the one that controls the home. And then they control the school. Now if you don’t like what I’m saying, just be thankful for what I’m holding back. Looking for seven. He said, if you endured chasing, dealing with you as with sons. For what son is he whom the Father chafes and not? So God is going to chasten you. It doesn’t mean he’s going to kill you.

Now he could take you home. He could be taken home. He says, some are sick and so forth. And many are dead because of it. And many are just plain way Christians. And God sometimes will just take him, put you on the shelf and not use you. But you don’t want to be put on a shelf. You want God to use you. Wouldn’t you rather have the blessings of God? I’d want the blessings of God in my life. And this is what God’s talking about.

Now, I want you to look at this because you need to see this first. Look in 2 Timothy chapter two, 2 Timothy and chapter two. Just turn to you left a couple of pages there. And look in verse 21. This is to the Christian, to the believer. You say, well, what if I’m not sure I’m saved anymore? and you have questions and doubts and remember this, if you have at a time in your life, trust the Christ is your savior, and you dependent upon him to take it to heaven when you die.

Then God says you’re going to heaven depends upon him keeping his word, he promised. And if you question and you doubt, it does not call God the question and God the doubt. And God says this, look there in verse 19, nevertheless, the foundation of God’s standard sure, having this seal and you ought to underline this part of the verse. The Lord know of them that are His and then He makes this statement. Let every one, that name of the name of Christ turn from sin, depart from iniquity.

That’s the will of God for His children, but not all of God’s children do what God says to do. And God says that there’s vessels that He uses, vessels of honor vessels of dishonor, a vessel that showed God’s grace and mercy and vessels that showed God’s anger and his wrath. See there in verse 20, in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of wood and of earth, some to honor, some to dishonor.

Now he’s relating it to you and I. In verse 21, if a man therefore purged himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto what? Honor. But But see, that’s something that you do. You have to purge out of your life those things that would cause you to be a bad vessel. See, God’s looking for a clean vessel that he can use for his honor, for his glory. Somebody that will say, Lord, here am I, use me. But means you gotta discipline your life.

We live in a time and age where nobody wants to discipline anything. We’ve got insurance on everything. And so it doesn’t matter how I live, what I do, drive recklessly, no matter how I got insurance. We didn’t have all of that there. Everybody was more careful because you were responsible. And it was a price you had to pay. Today it doesn’t matter about things like that. You know what I noticed, let me just mention this to you. It’s a little sidetrack, but over in India, I mean, there’s peeming millions of people.

And you know, in most of the towns, in the cities, there’s no red lights and stop signs. There’s a few here and there, but most of them not. And I mean, there’s people going all over the place and they even drive on the wrong side of the road. The cars got the steering wheel on the wrong side than inside the car. And the first two days I’m there I am in panicville because I can see a car coming at me and he’s on the wrong side of the road.

And I’m on the passenger side and I thought I’m gonna die. I’m gonna die. And they just miss you. You could just about picking each other’s pockets and not, you know, close. And then there’s people, these little rickshaw things, and they drive those three-wheeler deals, and they pick up, and there’s thousands of them all over the place. And everybody over there seems like everybody runs around on the motorcycle. And they got a picture of a woman going down the street.

She’s sitting on the back side saddle of her husband who’s riding the motorcycle, and she’s got a baby in her arm. There’s no seat belts, and she’s doing about 40 miles an hour. They’re all over the place like this. And there’s people walking and when they all come to an intersection, there’s no stop signs. There’s no red lights. Everybody just works their way through it. It’s just like if after we after church today and we say we want everybody to go to the fellowship hall, do we have to put red lights and stop signs here?

But everybody can get up and walk around and make a log in and you just walk through it. They do that with their vehicles. We’re decars. It just blew my mind. I thought that’s why we have all these traffic jams here in town. This is one of the worst places I’ve ever seen. It’s because they got red lights and stop signs. Do away without them things and this first come first served and nobody hitting each other. It was incredible.

I thought, man, that would have limited a lot of problems here in America, but they don’t have the expressways over there and they’re not going 75 and 80 miles an hour either. But here, you know, there’s areas of responsibility that we have as God’s children, and we need to discipline ourselves, and majority of God’s people don’t like to be disciplined. We don’t want anybody telling us what we can and cannot do. And you know what else I saw, what all that was going on over there?

And if you’re on a motorcycle and they pull in front of you, they’re just pulling in front of you, and you pull in front of somebody else, and it seems like everybody comes at all different angles. I never saw anybody getting mad. I didn’t see anybody, bless anybody. But here in America, I can drive down the street, and if one person pulls in front of me, I’m ready to take this thing and turn into a tank, and make them pay, because you realize I could have been another 15 feet further down the road.

And I think, look what you did, you held me up from getting someplace important, and we get mad at each other, we have road rage. I didn’t see the first person over here with anybody. It’s a different world altogether. But over here, we don’t do that. It’s not that we have a bad case of Me first, we have a bad case of Me onlyitis. I have no idea how I get sidetracked on these things. Well, I’m right here in 2 Timothy, but I did want to see that in verse 21.

If a man therefore purge himself, he shall be a vessel unto honor. And then in verse 22 he talks about what you need to flee. And in verse 23, things that you need to avoid. And then he talks in about the next one, you’re a servant, you’re a servant. Look what he says in chapter 2 there, and look down in verse 3, thou therefore in verse 3, endure hard as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warth entangled himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who have chosen him to be a soldier.

You and I, we can become so entangled with the affairs of this life that we don’t have any time to do what God wants us to do. And we make choices that affect our whole lives. There’s one thing that I wanted my kids to know and my grandkids. Now, I may not convince them total of everything, but I want them to know that they have a dad or a granddad that wants to practice what he preaches, that puts the Lord first.

I have tried to since I trusted Christ as my Savior. The first 18 years don’t count. I was a bad boy. I really messed up. But since that day, when I trusted Christ as my Savior, and I fell in love with the Lord, and the Lord became more real to me than the clothes that I’ve got on my back, more real to me than my wife and my kids, more real to me than you. I can’t make that happen to everybody.

And I don’t know why it doesn’t happen to everybody. I haven’t figured it out yet. But I just know this. God’s been good to me. And I can’t see me doing anything other than just serving Him with all my heart. I wish I could get everybody just to love the Lord and everything else will fall into place. You see, when you don’t love the Lord right, you think He doesn’t love you. And love is a very powerful motivating thing.

See, the last thing I have done here is the motive. It’s two motives, love and fear. Love is so powerful, but I know that if I don’t serve a Lord because I love Him, I know I’m going to fear Him. Because I know he’ll chase and discipline me and maybe take me home before my time. Oh yeah, I’m ready to go to be with Lord, but I want to go when he’s ready, not because he had to take me because of my bad testimony.

Serve the Lord while you can. There’s a guy that we had over there and he was driving us around and I was in holy fear. I really was. After a while I got to where I could accept it and relax a little bit. I felt like I guess they ain’t gonna hit nobody and Then I’m not gonna get smashed And everybody else seemed to relax and enjoy us. Yes, I will too So I’m sitting here in the front seat and the drivers over here.

That’s already backward to me And I asked him I says, um, can I ask you a question? He just looked at me. Yeah Real talkative guy I Guess he had to really concentrate on driving So there’s people walking all over the place too. And I says, are you Christian, Muslim, Hindu? And he says, I’m Hindu. Okay? I thought we’d strike up a conversation, but it was just one-sided so far. And after a while I asked him again, I says, I says, are you going to heaven when you die?

He says, I don’t know. I don’t care. I says, don’t you think about the future? He says, no. He’s answering every question the wrong way so far. He said, I don’t think about it. And then he kind of let me have a few little line sentences. He says, I only think about now today. Don’t think about tomorrow. tomorrow. don’t care about tomorrow, just today. He said, I said, well, what about heaven? And so I said, don’t care. Now, a Hindu can believe in many gods.

And I might come back as that old cow over there, or that dog over there in that yard, or somebody else, or whatever. And that’s dependent on how good I am here. But there was such nebgousness in this thinking that no couldn’t prove, couldn’t solve anything. And so I realized I’m not going to get too far here. I said, when we get to the meeting on Thursday night, I said, I want you to listen to what I say. He wouldn’t come into the meeting.

He stood outside and he listened to the window. And so that’s the Thursday night that we had, I don’t know, 5,600 that said that trust Christ is Savior. And everybody got into the van and we got ready to leave and he was still standing at the door. I said, did you listen to me tonight? He says I listened to you. I said you really listen. He said I listened Okay, I’ll let it go. What’s he listened?

We had the graduation I’ve been preaching two hours every day until the graduation and that was on a Saturday and I Says I want you to listen to what I have to say today. He says I’ll listen So he stood outside and he listened to the windows because they didn’t have glass on the windows just embars So he listened to what I had to say. When I was all over with, and we got really getting the card, and I knew I only got 24 hours before I was the last time I ever seen him.

And I got ready to get in the car, and I asked him, I said, did you listen to me tonight? Today? And he said, yes, I did. I said, did it make sense? Did you understand? He says, I understand. I said, where are you going to go? And he says, I’m going to heaven. I had to turn away because I got teary eyed. Didn’t say much just enough. Now, a man doesn’t know and then a man says, I know.

And I talked to him a little bit about serving the Lord, telling his wife and his two kids. I saw him one more day and I said, don’t you listen to me again? And I was on that Sunday who we left that night. And it was so neat. I forgot about the five or six hundred. That one became so important to me. See, a lot of times we think about if I can just reach the masses, you have sometimes you need to focus on just one person.

Isn’t there just one person that your heart burns for? One person, maybe it’s an aunt or an uncle, a relative of some kind or an in-law, an outlaw, an uncle who they are, somebody you work with. and it burns inside of you. I wonder if they know Christ is their Savior. Maybe you can’t do it all at one time, but a few words here and a few words there and a few words down the road and you start working because you care about people and you want them to know Christ is their Savior.

But anyway, if you’re here and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, this is what I told them, that you tell me if it was clear or not. This is you and me. You see, we’re all born into this world and we’re all sinners because we’re sinners. We commit sin. The wall represents sin. We all have sin on us. Now God says that He loves us, but He hates our sin. I realized while I was over in India, I needed to get me a new wallet, but I got me some bigger sin.

I want to make sure y’all see the sin. Can y’all see the sin? Yeah. I left mine at home. This is y’alls. But we have all sinned and come short of the glory of God, short of God’s perfection. And to pay for sin is eternal separation from God in a place called hell. But God says that He loves us and He wants us to go to heaven and to go to heaven. We have to be perfect as righteous as God and none of us are perfect.

We’ve all done things wrong. Nobody’s any better than anybody helps. of sin we can’t get in and that’s the same for everybody. So it doesn’t matter what religion you are, it’s not important. It’s that have you trusted Christ as your Savior. You say God says you can’t earn eternal life, you can’t work your way to heaven by your good deeds. Church can’t get you to heaven, no church can’t, no preacher, no priest, nobody can get you to heaven. You can’t even get yourself there.

Your good works don’t even count. We’ve come short. This hand represents Jesus Christ, He’s the Lord God in the flesh. He came into the world because He loves us, hates our sin because it separates us from Him. So Christ took the sin, paid for it on the cross and came back from the dead. And God said that if we would believe He did it for us, if we would trust Him as our Savior, He would put this payment to our account and we get to go to heaven on what Christ did for us.

He that believeth, hath everlasting life. What did you got to do to go to heaven? Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved from the penalty of sin. Would you believe what Christ said? He promised, all you got to do is believe it. If you’ll just believe it, he’ll never cast you out and never lose you. If you’re here this morning and you’ve never trusted Christ is your Savior. Would you trust Him? Would you depend upon Him to take you to heaven when you die?

He said if you would trust Him, He would save you. He means what He says. He won’t lie to you. So in the quietness of this moment, if you hear this morning, you say, I’ve never trusted Christ as my Savior, but I want to know that I’m going to heaven and preach out life for you, pray for me. I’m not going to have you stand up or come forward. I’m going to ask you in just a moment to raise but raising your hand doesn’t save you.

It just lets me know that what I said made sense to you and you said, in preacher, I will trust Christ as my Savior. I want to know that I’m going to heaven and I like you to pray for me in closing. Would you just slip in it very quickly and put a right back down? Anyone at all say, yes, pray for me. Anyone at all before we close say, yes, I will trust Christ as my Savior this morning.

I want to know that I’m going to heaven when I die. Our Father, we do thank You so much for all that You’ve done for us. for us, for the free gift of eternal life. And Father, I thank you so much for the opportunity to be able to go and represent this church and to present the gospel and to have so much fruit, fruit that abounds to their account. We thank you for this time together, and ask your blessings upon each person here.

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God invited the whole world to come to heaven. He opened up the door where everybody in the whole world is invited. Can you get any greater of an invitation than that? Who does it exclude? It doesn’t exclude anybody. Everybody, whosoever will, may what? Everybody who will may come. The biggest invitation in all the world. No greater invitation has ever been given to mankind than whosoever, whosoever will. I also want you to notice when he says, be leave it in him, be leave it in him.

Now you and I know and we understand that when a man dies without the Lord, he is going to spend an eternity in hell. And the easiest escape that’s ever been offered to any man from the greatest danger in all the world is whosoever, believe it, believe. Can’t get any easier than that. If God had made salvation where a man had to earn it, then that would be hard. If he said you had to go to church every Sunday, that would be difficult.

That’s difficult for some y’all to come once a month. It’s difficult for people to pray every day if you had to pray. What if God told you you had to pay at least 10% of all of your money that you’ve ever made or you’d go to hell? A lot of people wouldn’t go to heaven there either. That would be hard. But God made salvation easy. He says, all you have to do believe. The easiest escape from the greatest place, hell, to heaven is made so easy for everybody in the whole world.

God so loved the world that He gave, has only been gotten, son, that whosoever, believe it in Him, should not what? Should not perish. Divine deliverance. It means that you will not perish. You will not go to hell. Think of the consequences if you don’t believe. Look what you get if you do believe. It is a divine deliverance where God Himself, created the heavens of the earth will deliver an individual from hell and let that person go to heaven and he does it all for us.

And then he says, but have everlasting life, everlasting life, the priceless possession, the greatest thing you and I could ever wish for. Ever want is to have eternal life. The greatest possession that a man can possess, he can have it, and it’s free. This is why the whole Bible was written because God so loved the whole world that he gave his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, that whosoever anybody, Believe it, then Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Look up here. Letting this hand represent you and me and this wallet represents sin. We all have sin upon us. God loves us. He hates our sin. The Bible says that if we pay for this sin, it’s eternal separation from God in hell. But God wants us to go to heaven and to go to heaven, we have to be perfect just as righteous as God. And none of us are perfect. None of us are righteous. we needed a Savior.

Jesus Christ came into the world. This hand representing Christ came into world because He loves us. Hates our sin because our sins separates us from the Lord. So Christ took it, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead. And now the payment for the sins of the world had been paid and everybody is invited to accept the payment that He made for them. So only by faith, by believing alone, they can have eternal life and go to heaven on what Christ did for them.

For God, so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. That is what Christ did for us. I want you to look at this in John 3 16. When he says, for God so loved of a world, God loving the world is the richest possible mercy. The richest possible mercy. Why? Because what has the world done to deserve being loved? And not just what has the world done that would deserve God loving us, what has the world done that deserve God saving us.

Never thought about that. What is it about you? That is so wonderful. What makes you so great? Why does God love you? Can you explain it? And yet the whole world has sinned against God. The whole world was condemned. God’s so loving the world, every person in the world, all the same God loves them all. God loves the thief. God loves the homosexual. God loves the murderer. God loves Adolf Hitler. God loves the man who bombed that building in Oklahoma.

God loves all these people because of how many they have killed or raped. God loves them. God does not love their sin. God does not love your sin, but God loves you. And God can save every sinner, every sinner, all sinners. There isn’t anyone that God doesn’t want to save. God wants to save the whole world. That’s why He died for the whole world. You and I would like to blow them away. We’d like to part their soul in eternity.

We’d love to send a few people to hell, but God isn’t like us. He loves them all. He loves the whole world. He loves the people that you can’t stand. The ones you despise and the ones you look down on. The ones you think deserve to go to hell. Have you ever seen somebody that, well they deserve to go to hell. Did anybody ought to go to hell? They ought to go to hell. Well, if that’s true, so do you.

you deserve to go to hell. And that’s why God so loving the world is the greatest possible mercy that can ever be demonstrated upon mankind. The gift of his only begotten son. That’s the highest possible price that could ever be paid for something. What would you be willing to pay for your salvation? If you really believed there was a literal fire burning hell, what would you be willing to pay not to go there? Would you be willing to give all your money?

Would you be willing to give your wife and your kids? Just the wife? What would you be willing to pay in order to go to heaven to escape that place? What would it be worth to you? Would it be worth it for you to try to live right if you thought that would get you there? The highest possible price it could be paid was the life of God’s Only begotten son. Remember, Jesus Christ being born of this world was his only son that God fathered.

He fathered a child. He had a child, his own child. He only did that one time. He only had one son and he gave him to be the sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. That whosoever, that means you, me or anybody else might not suffer. That’s the largest possible number that you could ever reach numerically concerning people. Every person is included into this number. It exempts nobody that God so loved the world that He gave is only begotten Son, that whosoever, anybody, the largest possible number, that He says that we shall not perish.

Shall not perish. That’s the darkest possible doom upon any man. Think for a moment. You may not have good health. That’s not the worst thing in the world. You may not have any money. That’s not the worst thing in the world. You may not be married. That’s not the worst thing in the world. You may not have your will. That’s not the worst thing in the world. The worst thing that could ever happen to you is to go to hell.

There’s nothing worse than that. That’s the darkest doom upon any man. And God says that when you trust him as your Savior, you are delivered. You will not perish. You will not perish means you will not be lost in hell into a literal flaming fire for all eternity. The Bible does not describe hell as a place of light, but a place of darkness, place of darkness. To be delivered from that will not perish. when he says, but have everlasting life or eternal life.

That’s the greatest possible blessing that any man can ever have. Think, isn’t it nice to be married? Is it nice to have children? Isn’t it nice to have good health? Isn’t it nice to have good clothes? Isn’t it nice to have a good house? Isn’t it nice to have a good job? And all those things nice, but there is no possession greater than the gift of eternal life. It’s the greatest possession you can ever have. I have that possession.

I can lose everything else, but I cannot lose the greatest possession of all. I can lose my health. I can lose my house. I can lose my wife. I can lose my kids. I can lose everything. But one thing that means more to me than anything else in this world is knowing that I have eternal life and I’m going to be with the Lord forever and I can’t lose that. The greatest possible blessing. When He said, who so ever believe it?

the easiest possible terms. God put it on the level that everybody can have it and everybody can do it. Only believe. God says it’s not by your works for by grace or you say through faith and that not of yourself it is the gift of God. Not a works, lest any man should boast. And you know what? All this is based upon the greatest security of all. What’s the greatest security of all of this. God said it. God’s Word.

Who said verse 16? Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is God. God said it and that’s the greatest security you and I will ever have because of the Word of God. I know that I’m saved, not because I feel it. I know I’m saved because I’m living for God. No, I’m not. I know I’m saved because God’s Word says I’m saved. I I know I have eternal life because God’s Word says I have eternal life. I’m God’s child because God’s Word says I’m God’s child.

That’s how I know this. And this will never change. I want you to look there in verse 16 again. When he says, for God, God is the author of our salvation. He’s the author of it. Who designed this plan of salvation? Man did not design it. Man did not come up with a scheme. ideas of religion is always man doing something to get right with God. Man trying to live a certain way. That’s all the religions of the world is man trying to attain unto something by his own efforts.

Christianity is where God reaches down to man. Religion is where man is trying to reach up to God. It was God who took the initiative and came into the world. This plan of salvation was designed by God, He’s the author of it. He designed it. He’s the architect. He’s the one that provided the way of salvation because no man can save himself. I want you to also notice that phrase that says, so loved the world. That’s the affection of salvation.

And it means in spite of all our sins, in spite of all that we’ve done wrong, in In spite of everything that’s contrary to the will of God, God still so loved the world. And that includes all the nations of the world. God so loved the world. Are you in this world? Then he loves you. He said, yeah, but you don’t know what I’ve done. It doesn’t matter what you’ve done. You don’t know how bad I’ve been. It doesn’t matter how bad you’ve been.

It doesn’t matter. loves you and he loves you that much. The affection of our salvation is that there is a personal loving God who wants you to be saved. It’s not a machine. This is not just mechanics. There’s a personal God that has feelings and I cannot tell you and I cannot explain to you if I could I would why God loves us, why God wants us saved. All I know is it’s for his honor, is for his sake, that he does love us and that he does care and that he wants everyone to be saved.

I don’t know why God would love a murderer or a thief, no more than he’d love a liar, but he says he loves a song. I want the person. That might be listened even to the broadcast. I want that homosexual to know that God loves that man. That God hates his sin. God loves that murder, but God hates his sin. You see, God loves that person that’s living in adultery. But God hates the sin. God loves people. You and I need to keep it in mind as we look at people and we deal with people.

God loves those people. He hates their sin. Sometimes we get kind of mixed up sometime and we hate the person instead of hating the sin. Also want to let you know when he says that he gave, that he gave. That’s the agony of salvation. When he says he gave his son, he didn’t just, okay, I gave that. He knew that by giving his son what his son was going to have to do. He knew what he was going to have to endure.

When you stop and think about it, did his son, his only son that he gave into this world, did his son deserve to be slapped? Did his son deserve to be slapped with the hand? Did his son deserve to have a crown of thorns upon his head? Did he deserve all of that? No. Did he deserve to be spit on and to be beaten with a stick? No. Did he deserve to be placed upon a cross and nails driven into that.

Did he deserve any of that? No. Well, what did he deserve? He didn’t deserve anything like that. But by God doing what he did and letting him have his perfect righteous son into this world shows you how wicked sin really is. See, it’s one thing when you try to compare a hog with a hog. They’re both hogs. But when you put a sheep in amongst the hogs, you can see the difference. They’re not the same. You and I sin.

I wrong you. You wrong me. But here comes God’s son who wronged no man did nothing wrong to anyone who was perfect. He was righteous, had no fault, no flaws in him. And to see what the world did to him shows you how wicked we are. Because see, when they hid him, we hid him. When they lied against him, we all lied against him. When they hid him with their fist, we all hid him with our fist. When they drove the nails in his hand, we all drove the nailsartney his hands.

You see, when they crucified him, we all crucified him. So why? Because he did that for us. If I had no sin, he would not have had to die for me. If you had no sin, he wouldn’t have had to die for you. He’d have just died for the ones who had sin. But since the Bible says he died for all the world, that means all the world had sinned. And all the world deserved to die. He was given the agony of salvation.

He says his only begotten Son is only begotten Son. He’s the advocate of salvation. We know that in the book of 1 John chapter 2, we have an advocate with the Father. But you know, there had to be a time when the Father and the Son in the plan of salvation that the Son’s Father, if I go down there and if I pay for their sins, if I die and pay for them, will you save them for my sake?

Will you save them? The Father said, if you go and you do that for them, I’ll accept that payment you make as a payment for their sins. I’ll do that for you. I’ll do that. What a plan. No man could have sat down and wrote this story. You’re not capable of thinking like this. These thoughts are not our thoughts. These ways are not our ways. This is beyond you and I. We could not have come up with a scheme like this.

This was designed in the mind of God, between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, a Council of Three, the Godhead. They did this. And He is an advocate who pleases another’s cause. In other words, God said, if you will pay for their sins, I’ll let them come to heaven on that payment. And that’s why. Jesus Christ did it. That’s why God says, I’ll justify them on the basis of what you did for them. You and I have done nothing to deserve heaven.

We’ve done no good works worthy of God’s saving us. It was all because of the plan of salvation God did it all. Another thing I like to mention two years that when he says that whosoever, that is the availability of salvation means it’s available to every individual. If God had said He had only saved a certain percentage or a certain number, I wouldn’t know who to witness to and who not to. I believe it’s my responsibility as a Christian to try to reach everybody I can in every way that I can and to pay or to sacrifice anything that I have and whatever I can do in order to try to reach people.

And I believe some of you here believe the same thing. This salvation is for a whosoever and that includes you and me and everybody you know and everybody you don’t know. Believe it then Him the acceptance of salvation. It means that all you have to do is believe that when Jesus Christ died, He died for you. Came back from the dead. If you’ll believe He did that for you and trust Him as your Savior. You can hear that He died and paid for sins and you can know that He did it for the sins of the whole world.

But you must believe He did it for you. When you believe He did that for you, He puts that payment to your account and not before. So salvation is only for believers. Will you believe it? It’s the easiest escape you’ll ever have from the darkest doom that you can ever escape from in the easiest manner possible simply by believing. The alternative of salvation is that you should not perish because it means that if you refuse to believe it you refuse then you will perish.

When you read John 3 16 that whosoever be believe it in him shall not perish mean that whosoever will not believe will perish.” Isn’t that true? If you don’t believe it, you will perish. It means you will be lost. That there really is a literal fire burning hell for all the unbelievers. Now look there in John chapter 3 and verse 18. He that believe it on him is not condemned. That means if you believe it, you’re not condemned because you see he died in your place, he was condemned for you, his payment is put to your account so you’re not condemned.

You’re not going to be punished. You’re not going to go to hell. You’re not going to perish. But he says, he that believe not. If you do not believe, you will perish. You will perish. He that believe if not is condemned when? You’re already condemned. You’re not waiting for someday to stand it’s some judgment and to find out if you’re going to be condemned or not. The Bible says, you’re already condemned. I’m not the judge. I’m just telling you what the judge said.

That everybody in the world is already condemned. They’re just waiting for the day of execution. But he says, those that will believe it, it’s made on the level that anybody can have it. to as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. If you believe it, you have everlasting life. Now look in the last part of verse 18, but he that believe if not is condemned already and here’s why, because he hath not believed.

Nobody can believe for you. Nobody can get saved for you. No No one can accept that payment Christ made for you. No person can do this for you in your place. Every individual has to do it then self. You have to trust Christ as your Savior or perish. There is no alternative. Trust Him or perish. Believe Him or perish. And that perish does not mean that you’ll be annihilated someday. It means you’ll perish in a literal fire burning hell and you’ll be in conscious torment for all eternity because you have not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

This is an abiding salvation. Because he says he that believeth on him should not perish but have what? Everlasting life. It means that if you do believe it, you do have something. He that believeth on me, hath, present tense, hath, right now everlasting life. Look there in verse 36. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. If you believe it, you have what? Everlasting life. When do you have everlasting life? When you believe it. If you believe it now, you have everlasting life.

Now, if you believe it, you have it. How do I know when I really believe it? When you can say, I have it. If you cannot say, I have it, it’s because you don’t believe it. If you believe it, you have it. Isn’t that simple? Look in John 647. Verily, verily I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. If you’ll believe on him, that means you believe that Jesus Christ was God’s Son. God into place came into this world, died on the cross, paid for your sins, came back from the dead.

You believe he did that for you and you accept him as your payment, as your Savior. God saves you from hell, gives you as a free gift everlasting life when you believe it. I’m not waiting to do this someday. I’m going to get eternal life. I have eternal life. I have it now. I am God’s child now and it’s something that I cannot lose because it’s a free gift. It’s the gift of eternal life, not temporary life. If you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Savior, what do you have?

Eternal life. If it’s eternal life, how long will it last? Forever. If it lasts forever and all of your sins are paid, Where are you going when you die? To heaven. Do you have to wait until you die to find out where you’re going? No, you can know it right now And if you have not trusted Christ as your Savior and him alone, you don’t go to heaven You can hear about it. You can quote all kind of stuff whole Bible But if you have not trusted Christ as your Savior, you’re lost and you’ll go to hell when you die But God loves you.

So do I. And I want people to have eternal life and to go to heaven. And I hope that you do. Let’s pray, shall we? With heads bowed nice and closed, no one looking around. If you’re here this morning, if you have not trusted Jesus Christ as your Savior, would you trust Him right now? I’m not asking to trust Me or this church. Don’t even trust yourself. Your good works. You can’t depend upon anything. Or anyone except Jesus Christ.

He is God in the flesh. He died. He paid for your sins You must believe he did it for you. And if you’ll believe that trust him right now right where you are You don’t have to come forward You don’t have to come up here to the front. You don’t have to confess anything to me You could talk to the God and confess to God Lord. I am a sinner. That’s what you are. That’s what I am I’m not perfect.

I believe Christ died. He paid for my sins and right now I’m going to trust him to take me to heaven when I die. And for any God’s that if you’ll believe he did it for you, he’ll save you and give eternal life. If you trust Christ as your Savior right now, then God saves you right now. He has you eternal life right now. You’re his child and your sin is forgiven. You become his child. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, and that today’s first part of this two-part message will be a blessing to you and And it’s one that you’ve heard, but it’s just maybe a little different twist to it. Every one of us knows that once we trusted Christ as our Savior, that the Bible talks about you and I being a vessel fit for the Master’s use. A vessel fit for the Master’s use.

Fit for God to use. Prepared under every good work. So the vessel that God wants to use, he wants a clean vessel. He wants a vessel that’s fit, vessel that’s prepared. So you see, some of those things, once you trust Christ’s Savior, is your responsibility. It’s my responsibility. How prepared we get depends on us. How fit you are for the Lord’s work depends on you. So you and I are supposed to prepare for God to use us. If you want God to use it, you don’t sit back and do absolutely nothing.

And I’m just waiting on God. God says, what do you mean? I’m waiting on you. God will use every vessel that makes themselves available. So that’s why it’s such an important thing. So turn in your Bible to the book of 2 Timothy and chapter 1. 2 Timothy, chapter 1, and look in verse 13. A vessel is for the purpose of holding something. Holding something. You can get a glass and it can be a vessel for holding some water and get a gas tank and hold gasoline, but a vessel is to hold something.

There’s something God wants to put into the vessel. Otherwise, the vessel is no good. There’s scripture that talks about a vessel being cracked. A cracked vessel. So here in verse 13, it says, hold fast the form of sound words. That means you and I are to be a vessel where the word of God abides. You see we’re not just holding water, we’re not just holding food, we’re supposed to hold the word of God. Something that’s very precious. So the Bible teaches this.

So take your Bible and turn to the book of Jeremiah, Jeremiah in chapter 18, all back there in the Old Testament to the book of Jeremiah in chapter 18. Jeremiah and chapter 18. Jeremiah chapter 18, this is on page 791 in the Church of Bible or the Old Schofar reference Bible. And there’s a little story here about the Potter’s house. I’ve read these verses before but let’s look at it one more time. And verse one, the word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, say, and arise and go down to the potter’s house.

There I will cause thee to hear my words. That word here, my word, means I’m going to cause you to understand my word. Even in the book of John chapter 5 verse 24, he that heareth my word and believeth on him, It’s not just hearing it, it’s understanding. When he says, do you understand what you are reading? He says, how can I accept some man should guide me? And even in the book of Nehemiah where it talks about that they had the reading of the Word of God and he caused them to understand.

That’s mainly what preachers tried to do is cause the people to understand what God’s Word has to say. So he makes the statement in verse three, then I went down to the potter’s house and behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hands of the potter. So he made it again, another vessel as seameth good to the potter to make it. Then the word of the Lord came to me saying, O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter?

Sayeth the Lord, behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hands. So are ye in mine hands, O house of Israel. And what instant I shall speak concerning a nation. and concerning the kingdom to pluck up, to pull down, to destroy. Remember, it was I, he says, the Lord that caused it to rise. God can cause it to rise, a kingdom, a nation, a family, an individual, and if you don’t do right, God can also put you down. God can uproot your whole life.

God can destroy this little life that we have, and it’s God that can rebuild us. There is a time to break the vessel. When the vard and God can’t use it, then he will break the vessel. and many times by sending to us problems and trials and tribulations that break us. You see, the will of man is a hard thing to break. And so God wants to break our will without breaking our spirit. So God wants you to serve him.

God wants you to love him. This is why he made the statement in the book of Hebrews in chapter 12 about, don’t faint when thou art rebuked of him. Nor faint when thou art rebuked. When God has to correct or chasten or maybe break the vessel. In other words, to humble a person. Because he God says one thing that harms a vessel from being used is pride. Pride hardens the heart. Pride causes the clay to get hard where God can’t shape it the way he wants.

So in order to God to work with it, he’s got to remake it and he’s got to break it. And then add some more water to it. those are the tears of the believer, and God can soften the clay and you become teachable and pliable in his hands, and God can use you again for his honor and glory. So just because you’ve messed up somewhere down the road doesn’t mean that God can’t use you in the future because he certainly can.

But he says in verse 8, If, if that nation against whom I have pronounced turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them, and at what instant I shall speak concerning the nation and concerning the kingdom to build and to plan it. So God says, testimonials, I can tear it down and I can put it back. That was the lesson that, well Jeremiah was supposed to learn by watching the potter and the clay and how that it was marred in his hands and so he had to destroy it and start over again.

Now, if you are rebellious to the Lord because of a hard heart, do you think that God may have to break you in order to soften you? And sometimes there’s things God would allow to happen in your life to cause you to have to run to Him, that you need the Lord. You know, it’s hard to stop going down a sliding board half way. You generally go all the way to the bottom. And people who run from the Lord usually have to go all the way to the bottom until there’s nothing else.

Kind of like the what we call the prodigal son when the Bible says he came to himself funny Came to himself You know when the famines came and all of his money was gone and his riotous living was all over with and he was feeding the hogs finally God got his attention and he said I think I’m gonna go home to see my daddy And I’ll tell him who daddy I’ve sinned against you. I’m no longer worthy to be called your son So he had humbled himself, but he had to be broken.

And so God is going to have to break up the ground in order to replant the seed. So God knows what he’s doing, and he will do that in our lives. If you know how God works, you’ll know what kind of a person you ought to be. Do not, under any circumstances, harden your heart toward God. Don’t you dare get bitter and mad and angry with God. God. Now you’ll do that toward people, but it’s God that you’re upset with.

People are only the recipients of your anger and explosion, but you’re not upset with the people. You’re upset with God because when you’re right with God, you can control all of that and you don’t have to respond the way that you think you’re doing. So take your Bible looking Psalms 31. A book of Psalms in chapter 31. Psalms 31, look in verse one. A couple interesting little verses that I wanna kinda go through here real quick. Look in verse one.

You This looks like it could be the sign of a very interesting yielded vessel. In verse one, in the O Lord, do I put my trust in thee? Do I put my trust? That sounds like a good idea. Look in verse three, for thou art my rock and my fortress, and you ought to underline this part of the verse in your Bible. Therefore, for thy names sake lead me and guide me. Have you ever heard people talk about God?

Lord, I want you to lead me to guide me. Lead me Lord, guide me. You see, if you want to be led by the Lord, you have to be doing something, going somewhere. You want the Lord to guide you. It is not within man that walk up to direct a step so everybody needs the Lord. Oh, look what he says in verse 5, into thy hands I commit my spirit. That is what makes you teachable. That’s what makes you pliable.

That’s why God is able to take you and mold you into the person that God wants you to be. Otherwise, you can grow up to be a mean, cantankerous, old woman or an old man. And that’s not what you want to be. Look down here in verse 9. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, and you are on the line, these words, because the day will come when you’ll need this verse. For I am in trouble. Just because you know the Lord and just because you love the Lord doesn’t mean you’re not going to have trouble.

Trouble are like sparks that fly upward from the time you’re born. There’s always trouble. A look at what he says there in verse 10, for my life, my life is spent with grief. My years with sighing my strength faileth because of my iniquity my bones are consumed and the older you live the more you realize it. But anyway, we’ll move right along. Oh, look what he says there in verse 12. You ought to underline verse 12. I am forgotten as a dead man out of mine.

And look at the last part that verse 12, I am like a, and you are the line these two words, especially a broken vessel. Now God may have to take you at times and break the vessel. Break your heart. Have you ever had a broken heart? It can come in a lot of ways. It can come through your husband. It can come through your wife. It can come from the people that you work with. It can come from your children.

It can come from grandchildren. come from the people you work with. It can even come from people in the church. And you’d be surprised how many different ways you could have a broken heart. But do you think that God in heaven knows when you have that broken heart? God may know what it takes to make this clay, this vessel, in order to shape it into what he wants. It’s kind of like a woman who makes a cake depends on what kind of a cake she wants to make.

If she just wants to make a vanilla cake, I mean, where’s vanilla? Well, you don’t put a lot of chocolate in it. You can for me. I like chocolate. I like chocolate in everything. I just run like chocolate. But look what he says here. Look down in verse 14, but I trusted in the old Lord, I for thou art my God.” You know another good statement along his line? Look there in the first verse on the next page. In verse 15, my times are in thy hands.

You ought to underline that. You need to understand and believe it. There is a God in heaven who says, my times are in his hands. My life is in his hands. Do you believe it? Do you believe there’s a God in heaven that’s aware of life and he designed it. He made you, made me, knows everything that’s going to happen. We have a wonderful God. And believe it or not, he does have a plan. He does know what he wants from our lives.

Look there in verse 19. He’s, oh, how great is thy goodness. Ain’t that good? which thou hath laid up, get to for them that fear thee, which thou hath wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men. How great is thy goodness, which thou hath laid up for them that fear him. If you’ll learn to yield yourself to the Lord, to be whatever it is God wants you to be, you’re gonna find a lot of goodness.

Remember David made the statement. He says, Shirley, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. And they will till he messed up. And then God says, I’m going to bring the sword against your home. Says four times it’s going to hit and buddy it did. And he had to pay a great price. Look down in verse 23. Oh love the Lord, all ye his saints. For the Lord, the Lord is the Lord. preserveth the faithful and plantifully rewardeth the proud doers.

Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart. All ye that hope in the Lord.” So is there a reason why we should hope in the Lord and put our trust in the Lord because of what he can do for us? And you and I are supposed to believe above all things. Not only is God a great God, is a good God. He is a good God. Take a Bible looking, Proverbs. Just turn to your right to the book of Proverbs.

And Proverbs chapter 25, Proverbs 25 and look there in verse 1 and just the first seven verses here I just want to throw a few things at you but verse 1. These are also Proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah, copied out. It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the honor of kings is to search out a matter. The heaven for height, the earth for death, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.

Verse 4 needs to be underlined, take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer. In other words, the draw is the things in your life God wants to clean out of you and he wants the silver to be pure silver. So whenever he gets through with you, you have been refined. So God is going to refine you and I like a refiner would do that with silver and with gold. Turn to the book of Acts in chapter 9, the book of Acts and chapter 9.

Remember a man by the name of Saul, not King Saul, the Saul in the New Testament, Saul before he became Paul. And the Lord had to really deal with this man, but I want you see what he says here in verse 13. Then Ananias answered and said, Lord, I have heard many things of this man. How much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem. So he said, Lord, I didn’t heard a lot about this man. This man is an evil man.

This man’s done a lot of bad things. and God is sending him to see this man, because he God had a plan. Can God take a man that was totally against him and then use him for him? Is it that what we’re doing and teaching that we can get a person who doesn’t know the Lord, love the Lord, get him to trust Christ as Savior and then try to teach people that God can use you, God can change you.

God can change your life. You know during the 2018 election, all the lives, hope and change, hope and change. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if America would hope in the Lord and see a change in the people’s lives? There’s the real hope and change, but it’s the spiritual thing. And so he says here in verse 14, and here he have authority from the chief priest to bind all that call on his name. Lord, do you know who this man is?

Do you know what this man has done? Do you know what he can do? He’s a powerful man. And the Lord said, and the Lord said, in verse 15, go thy way, for he is a, and you ought to underline these two words, chosen vessel. He’s a chosen vessel. Now you and I understand when we read the Gospel of John in chapter 15 where the Lord says, I have chosen you. I have chosen you. And that you should go.

So every one of us who know Christ is our Savior, you have been chosen by God, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. You see, every one of us are chosen vessels. He’s not as chosen as his people to do his work his way. And he didn’t ask the lost people to do it. He asked us to do it. But look what else he says here in this verse. He is a chosen vessel unto me to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel, for I will show him how great, wonderful, easy life he’s now going to have.

It didn’t say that. I’m going to show him how great things he must suffer for me. God is looking for me. for a vessel who is willing to suffer for Him. Are you ready? Remember I preached to a certain one night called, Are You Ready? Are You Ready? Are You Ready? Are you ready to be the vessel that God wants you to be? Well, I sure hope so. Take your Bible and turn to 2 Timothy in chapter 2. 2 Timothy and chapter 2.

Isn’t Timothy chapter 2? And look at verse 19. Verse 19. You know what he says in verse 15, he studied to show thyself approved unto God, he worked unto that need not to be ashamed, rightly divided in order to… That’s to the believer. If you want to be prepared, he says, study, study. See, a lot of people want to be used, but they don’t want to prepare themselves. So he says here in verse 19, Nevertheless, the foundation of God stand if sure, having this seal, the Lord know of them that are His.

Now it’s great to say, I know the Lord, but it’s also good that the Lord knows me and get the last part and let everyone that nameeth the name of Christ depart from iniquity, is Is it the will of God for his children to study the Word of God so that they’ll know how to discern right from wrong and depart from iniquity? To love the Lord is to hate evil. And if you don’t hate evil, you don’t love God.

If you love flowers, you have to hate weeds. Why? Because weeds kill flowers. And get what he says. verse 20, but in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth. Some to honor, some to dishonor. If a man, get this now, we’re talking about a man being a vessel fit for God to use. If a man therefore purges himself. See, these are things that God wants you to do.

Sometimes we think, well God’s going to do this and God’s going to have God’s waiting on his people to clean up their lives. And well, there’s some things that God tells us to do, to be fit for the masters used, to be willing to do whatever it is God wants us to do. And he makes a statement, if therefore a man purrs himself, these are things you and I have to do in our own life. Nobody can do this for us.

And he says, he shall be, not might, he shall be. See, to be a vessel fit for the Lord to use, then you have to do the cleaning. You have to go to work and cut out of your life things that will hinder God from using you. But my mom used to have all these kerosene liners. Anybody used to have any of those things? That’ll be a big old wick in it, it goes on and thing. And that’s what we had at night.

And so sometimes the suck get inside of that thing and that little glass sleeve on it, we know it would get all set it up. And then the light wouldn’t be very bright. So my mom would take the thing off of it and she would clean out all of the sun inside of it, put it back in man alive. It’s like you just turned on 10 of them. Well, see, our lives get there. See, the Holy Spirit living inside of you is as bright as you’ll ever be.

He’s not the problem. We’re the vessel and we’re not letting the light shine through us. Let your light so shine that men may see your Father and glorify Him. So you and I are supposed to be light, but sometimes it gets dirty. And that’s where you have 1 John 1, 9. You go to the Lord and God will keep you clean. clean, stay close to the Lord, apply the water of the Word, and keep yourself clean from that which can ruin your testimony and cause the light not to shine as clearly.

And sometimes there’s others who keep themselves clean, they do right, they keep their mind clean, and God is able to use them in a greater way. But look what he says here. In verse 21, he shall be a vessel on the honor, sanctified, pure and holy, set apart, meet or fit for the master’s use. Now the master in case you don’t know who he is, is the Lord. If he’s the master, then I’m supposed to be the servant. Now if you get this out of sync, you’re going to have a big problem.

You and I do not depart from iniquity and make him the master of our life in order to be saved. That would be works for salvation. That’s what you call Lordship Salvation, making Christ the Lord and a master of your life to be saved. That isn’t true. But after you trust Christ as your Savior, should the Lord be the master of our life? Yes. And get what he says in verse 20 to him. Flea also youthful lust. Follow after righteousness and faith and love and peace and with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

So that’s why you’re supposed to meet with the people who are doing the same thing. Who are trying to live a good life, a clean life. Trying to keep their vessels clean. Trying to keep their minds clean. You help each other. And God said, I can use you and you’ll be a servant that the Lord can use, and I’m sure that that’s what you want. Look in 2 Corinthians in chapter 4, 2 Corinthians and chapter 4. The Bible says, if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ should shine unto them.

Well, where Where is this Gospel? Where is this light supposed to shine from? Well, see there in verse 6, for God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness have shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. So the light shined into us and is to come from us. So it came to us so that we might give the light. But where is this most powerful message in all the world?

Look down in verse seven. He says, but we have this treasure in earthen vessels. That he says, that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us. You see, there’s a power in this message that God has given to us. And we are the vessels that God wants to use. And if you wonder why God may not use you the way you want to be used, It might be, it’s just something you have to find out between you and the Lord.

Maybe you’re not a clean vessel. Maybe you’re not a fit vessel. Maybe you’re not prepared for God to use you. You’re just not ready yet. Nobody can make you get ready. Nobody can prepare you. That’s a personal thing. There may be things that you harbor in your mind or in your life that you do not deal with. You’re not going to deal with it. And so God just puts you on the shelf and when you’re ready, when you’re ready, and you might sit there for 10, 15, 20 years, when you’re ready, or wouldn’t it be great to be used by God all the days of your life?

Do you want to be set on the shelf? Do you want to be hit under a bushel? God says you’re a vessel and you have this treasure in earthen vessels, a body of earth, the body of clay, that the power might be from God and not of us. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tapp of Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. Part two of this teaching will conclude with tomorrow’s broadcast.

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Our Sunday morning services begin at 10-30 and at 6 o’clock on Sunday evening. Live broadcast of our services may be seen by clicking on the Calvary Community Church link at BibleLineMinistries.org. Thanks for joining us on Bibleline, and now a closing thought from Pastor Arnold. Friend, one day it will happen. The trumpet will sound, and we will be changed. Caught up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon, and just keep looking up.

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So is there a reason why we should hope in the Lord, and put our trust in the Lord, because of what He can do for us? do for us. And you and I are supposed to believe above all things. Not only is God a great God, God is a good God. He is a good God. Take a Bible looking, Proverbs. Just turn to your right to the book of Proverbs. And Proverbs 25, Proverbs 25 and look there in verse 1.

And just the first seven verses here, I just want to throw a few things at you, but verse 1, These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah, King of Judah, copied out. It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the honor of kings is to search out a matter. The heaven for height, the earth for death, and the heart of kings is unsearchable. Verse 4 needs to be underlined. Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.”

In other words, the dross is the things in your life God wants to clean out of you. And he wants the silver to be pure silver. So whenever he gets through with you, you have been refined. So God is going to refine you and I, like a refiner would do that with silver and with gold. Turn to the book of Acts in chapter 9, the book of Acts and chapter 9. Remember a man by the name of Saul, not King Saul, the Saul in the New Testament, Saul before he became Paul.

And the Lord had to really deal with this man, but I want you to see what says here in verse 13. Then Ananias answered and said, Lord, I have heard many things of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem. So he said, Lord, I didn’t heard a lot about this man. This man is an evil man. This man’s done a lot of bad things. And God is sending him to see this man. Because he God had a plan.

Can God take a man that was totally against him and then use him for him? Is it that what we’re doing and teaching that we can get a person who doesn’t know the Lord, love the Lord, get him to trust Christ as Savior and then try to teach people that God can use you. God can change you. God can change your life. You know, during the 2008 election, now a lot of hope and change, hope and change. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if America would hope in the Lord and see a change in the people’s lives?

There’s the real hope and change, but it’s a spiritual thing. And so he says here in verse 14, and here he have authority from the chief priest who bind all that call on his name. Lord, do you know who this man is? Do you know what this man has done? Do you know what he can do? He’s a powerful man. And the Lord said, and the Lord said, in verse 15, go thy way, for he is a, and you ought to underline these two words, chosen vessel.

He’s a chosen vessel. Now you and I understand when we read the gospel of John in chapter 15, where the Lord says, I have chosen you. I have chosen you. And that you should go. So every one of us who know Christ is our Savior, you have been chosen by God, going to all the world and preached the gospel to every creature. You see, every one of us are chosen vessels. God has chosen His people to do His work, His way, and He didn’t ask the lost people to do it.

He asked us to do it. But look what else He says here in this verse. He has a chosen vessel unto me to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel, for I will show him how great, wonderful, easy life he’s now going to have.” It didn’t say that. I’m going to show him how great things he must suffer for me. God is looking for a vessel who is willing to suffer for him. Are you ready?

Remember I preached to someone and I called, are you ready? Are you ready? Are you ready? Are you ready to be the vessel that God wants you to be? Well, I sure hope so. Take your Bible and turn to 2 Timothy in chapter 2. 2 Timothy and chapter 2. 2 Timothy chapter 2. And look at verse 19. Verse 19. You know what he says in verse 15, he’s studied to show thyself approved unto God, he worked that needs not to be ashamed rightly divided in order to.

That’s to the believer. If you want to be prepared, he says, study, study. See, a lot of people want to be used, but they don’t want to prepare themselves. So he says here in verse 19, nevertheless, the foundation of God’s stand if sure, having this seal, the Lord know of them that are his. Now it’s great to say, I know the the Lord, but it’s also good that the Lord knows me and get the last part and let everyone that nameeth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

Is it the will of God for his children to study the word of God so that they’ll know how to discern right from wrong and depart from iniquity? To love the Lord is to hate evil. If you don’t hate evil, you don’t love God. If you love flowers, you have to hate weeds. Why? Because weeds kill flowers. And get what he says. In verse 20, but in a great house, there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth.

Some to honor, some to dishonor. If a man, get this. Now we’re talking about a man being a vessel fit for God to use. If a man therefore purge himself. See these are things that God wants you to do. Sometimes we think, well God’s going to do this and God’s going to have God’s waiting on his people to clean up their lives. And well, there’s some things that God tells us to do to be fit for the masters used to be willing to do whatever it is God wants us to do.

And it makes a statement, if therefore for a man purge himself. These are things you and I have to do in our own life. Nobody can do this for us. And he says, He shall be, not might, He shall be. See, to be a vessel fit for the Lord to use, then you have to do the cleaning. You have to go to work and cut out of your life, things that will hinder God from using you. But my mom used to have all of these.

seen the lanterns. Anybody used to have any of those things? That would be a big old wick in it, it goes on and thing. And that’s what we had at night. And so, sometimes the sun could get inside of that thing and that little glass sleeve on it we know it would get all set it up. And then the light wouldn’t be very bright. So, my mom would take the thing off of it and she would clean out all the sun inside of it, put it back in, man alive!

It’s like you just turned on 10 of them. Well, see, our lives get there. See, the Holy Spirit living inside of you is as bright as you’ll ever be. He’s not the problem. We’re the vessel and we’re not letting the light shine through us. Let your light so shine that men may see your Father and glorify Him. So you and I are supposed to be light. But sometimes it gets dirty. And that’s where you have 1 John 1, 9, you go to the Lord and God will keep you clean.

Stay close to the Lord. Apply the water of the Word and keep yourself clean from that which can ruin your testimony and cause the light not to shine as clearly. And sometimes there’s others who keep themselves clean. They do right. They keep their mind clean and God is able to use them in a greater way. But look what he says here in verse 21 he shall be a vessel under honor sanctified pure holy Set apart, meet or fit for the master’s use.

Now the master in case you don’t know who he is, is the Lord. If he’s the master, then I’m supposed to be the servant. Now if you get this out of sync, you’re going to have a big problem. You and I do not depart from iniquity and make him the master of our life in order to be saved. That would be works for salvation. That’s what you call Lordship Salvation, making Christ the Lord and a master of your life to be saved.

That isn’t true. But after you trust Christ as your Savior, should the Lord be the master of our lives? Yes. And get what he says in verse 20. Flea also youthful lust. Follow after righteousness and faith and love and peace and with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. So that’s why you’re supposed to meet with the people who are doing the same thing. Who are trying to live a good life, a clean life, trying to keep their vessels clean, trying to keep their minds clean.

You help each other. And God said, I can use you, and you’ll be a servant that the Lord can use. And I’m sure that that’s what you want. Look in 2 Corinthians in chapter 4. 2 Corinthians and chapter 4. The Bible says, if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, in whom the God of this world had blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ should shine unto them.

Well where is this gospel? Where’s this light supposed to shine from? Well see there in verse 6, for God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness have shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. So the light shined into us and is to come from us. So it came to us so that we might give the light. But where is this most powerful message in all the world?

Look down in verse 7. He says, but we have this treasure in earthen vessels that he says, that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us. You see, there’s a power in this message that God has given to us. And we are the vessels that God wants to use. And if you wonder why God may not use you the way you want to be used, it might be. It’s just something you have to find out between you and the Lord.

Maybe you’re not a clean vessel. Maybe you’re not a fit vessel. Maybe you’re not prepared for God to use you. You’re just not ready yet. Nobody can make you get ready. Nobody can prepare you. That’s a personal thing. There may be things that you harbor in your mind or in your life that you do not deal with. You’re not going to deal with it. And so God just puts you on the shelf. And when you’re ready, when you’re ready, and you might sit there for 10, 15, 20 years, when you’re ready, or wouldn’t it be great to be used by God all the days of your life.

Do you want to be settled in the shelf? Do you want to be hid under a bushel? God says you’re a vessel and you have this treasure in earthen vessels, a body of earth, a body of clay. The power might be from God and not of us. Oh, we’d like to take credit. That’s why I’ve told the Lord, give me a Superman body. So I could fly here, fly there, raise a dead, do all these things. Look how many people would just swarm around me.

You know what I did the other day. I was turning to the channels and I saw this thing about this, the Tea Party. I thought I wanted to see what this Tea Party’s doing. So I turned on and Sarah Palin was talking. And when it got over, you’d have thought she was a rock star or something. I mean, they were, it seemed like 100 deep. And she must have signed 200 or 300 signatures. She was putting her name on their caps, on their shirt, paper, anything.

And everybody was just jumping up there and trying to get their picture taken on her. And I thought, she’s just a woman. But she’s getting all this attention and so forth. I’m not against a woman getting all this attention and so forth. But she’s just a woman. What kind of a vessel is she though? What kind of a message does she have? I’m looking for somebody that’s got a good, deep spiritual message on the gospel. Wouldn’t it be great If all these candidates who have all these wonderful opportunities and they interview them, and they would get up there and say, I just want you to know that I have accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior.

I know I have eternal life. He died on the cross, paid for all of my sins, and this is what you and I need. This is what America needs. America needs to know that when we trust Christ as our Savior, God gives us eternal life, and He’ll never cast us out and never lose us. And give the gospel. Why can’t they do that? Because that might cost them votes. And then the left would not like that at all. Me, you tell my God, go crazy.

But I believe somewhere along the line, God might be looking for a vessel that will give him all the honor and all the credit and all the glory. But what I watch is I see them just absorbing it and just getting all the on and all the credit Look at me look who I am. Am I somebody or what? Do you know who I am?

Well, I know who he is and I think it’s important for us to keep this in mind I’ll take your Bible looking Isaiah chapter 60 all the way back here to the book of Isaiah and chapter 60 you know in the Old Testament, the book of Daniel talks about Daniel saw this image of a beast. And remember this beast that had a head of gold, arms and silver of a silver, belly of brass and legs of iron and feet part of iron and part of clay.

So you had clay and iron and brass and silver and gold. And God says that he’s the one that raises them up and puts them down. God can determine the quality of a nation. God can determine the quality of an individual by the yieldingness to his power. Where you allow the Lord to mold you. And he says in every house, there’s vessels of honor and dishonor. And vessels of honor is those that he’s able to shape who yield to his will.

And there’s those who will not. And God says these are vessels of dishonor and God will use them to bestow his wrath upon. And others to bestow his grace upon. So look what he says here in the book of Isaiah because God can change things. God is a miracle working God. God can take a vessel of clay and make it into a vessel of gold. See what he says here in verse 17, for brass I will bring gold. Wouldn’t it be something that you could get some brass and make gold out of it?

Wouldn’t you like that? Look what else he says. Iron and brain force silver. Can you do that? Try it. You know what really amazes me and it’s hard to fathom. How about a cow? A cow can eat that green grass and eat nothing but green grass and be able to give white milk and yellow butter. You try it. But a cow can do that. Where did this manufacturing plant come from? Let our scientists try to figure out, hey, there’s grass out there.

Don’t you turn it into some milk and yellow butter. see how they do or steak. Eat grass and can make a tea bone steak. And we’re supposed to believe we’re the highest form of an evolutionary letter and we can’t do it but a dumb cow, a lot of brain can. Don’t I blow your mind and to think that you can get a brown cow and chocolate milk. But God says, I can take one vessel and if it yields himself to me, I can make it into a vessel of this.

Did you know God can take you, a child of God, an old broken down piece of nothing? And God can take you and if you’ll just yield yourself to the Lord, you’d be surprised how God can shape and mold your life. and turn you into something wonderful that you never dreamed of. You might look at yourself and say, I’m just a worthless piece of clay. And God can streamline you in such a way and filter out things out of your life and purge you and send you through the fire, and you can come out pure gold or pure silver.

Don’t underestimate the power of God in your life because you never know what God is going to do down the road because of who you are and what he can do. Now look at the last part, he said, and for wood, brass, and for stones, iron. Look what God can do. And God says that this is what he can do, I believe, in our life. Look now in the book of Job, chapter 23, the book of Job and chapter 23.

Now Job 23, oh, this is a good one. So much good stuff here. Job, chapter 23. And notice Job had, well, he woke up one day and he was having a nightmare. His life, his world was turned upside down, not for anything that he has done. And yet God broke the man, broken, to where he humbled himself to God and he cried out to God, because he couldn’t figure out why would God do this to a just man. It wasn’t because of how far Job had gone.

come, it was because God had so much further for him to go. It’s not because of all that he learned, it’s because of what he didn’t know and hadn’t learned yet. God knew what he was doing in his life, but looked there in verse 1 of Job, chapter 23, then Job answered and says, even today is my complaint bitter. My stroke is heavier than my groaning. All that I knew where I might find him. Have you ever sometimes had such a bad day and you wonder if God knows what’s going on?

If God only knew who I was and what I’m going through, nobody understands. You had to do. You realize a lot of people in this world that suffer just like you and hurt just like you, you’re not alone. And not only that God in heaven knows he understands, he feels, he knows every despair you have. And then he made the statement in verse 4, I would order my cause before him, feel my mouth with arguments. If I could only get five minutes with God, I’d like to tell him what I think.

I could argue with God. I’d like to present my cause. Well, I would know in verse five the words which he would answer me and understand what he would say to me. Oh, I love to know what he would say to me because I know, as Joe would say, I don’t deserve this. I don’t deserve losing ten kids in one day. I don’t deserve losing my wealth. I don’t deserve losing my health. I didn’t do anything. I don’t deserve my wife turning against me and telling me, why don’t you curse God and die?

I don’t deserve the way people have treated me. I don’t deserve that. Okay, what do you deserve? Oh, sinner man. Anyway, looking verse 10, but he knoweth the way that I take. When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as what? Oh, I’m not gonna be gold. I’m gonna come forth as gold. God’s doing it because he wants to purify me. He wants to make me better, not bitter. God doesn’t do anything to make you better. God doesn’t do things to us just to hurt us.

It’s because God wants to make us better. And he performs all the things. Look there in verse 14, for he performer the things that is appointed for me. That’s a powerful verse. Did you know that God has an appointment for you? There’s things that God wants you to know, God wants you to learn, God wants you to do, and maybe you’re right on schedule. Did you know that God has a day prepared for you tomorrow? If you should live, he might have all kind of things.

You don’t know what that day holds for you. But you’re supposed to believe that God has appointed certain things for me in every day. And with that, according to Lamentations chapter 3, the Lord is merciful. Great is thy faithfulness. Great is his goodness unto me. In the 103rd Psalm, He have loaded me with all kind of benefits. And then we wonder and we worry and we fret when God has been so good, so good to us. Look what He says in verse 11, my foot have held His steps, His way have I kept and not declined.

I want to serve the Lord. I want God’s will. I want to be a vessel that when God gets through purging me, I shall come forth as gold. I shall come forth as silver.” So God can take you that you might not think you’re worth very much. Just an old piece of clay or a hunk of coal and God can change you into a vessel of honor. Do you believe it? I believe it. I remember what God had to work with when I was saved and I was 18 years old.

Boy did he have his hands full. Boy did he have a lot of work to do. And evidently the reason he’s letting me live so long is because I got a long way to go. He might have a little bit more purging for me to do. You’re supposed to believe that God wants the best for you and there’s things in our life that might need to be purged out of our life. Look up here. Letting this hand represent you and me.

The wallet represents sin. We all have sin on us. And the reason because, see, we have a sinful nature. You see, doing these bad things is not what makes me bad. Me being bad is why I do these bad things. You see, we do these bad things because we are a sinner. You can stop your drinking, smoking, dipping, chewing, and going to girls to do. girl to do, you’re still bad because he sins on the inside of you. It’s your nature.

You have a sinful nature. You are naturally rebellious to perfection. But God says that he loves us, and he hates our sin because our sins, he separates us from the Lord. So we have a payment that we have to make, and God loves us and wants us to go to heaven, but we have to be perfect nobody’s perfect. We’ve all sinned. We’ve all come short of God’s perfection. So the Bible says you cannot earn eternal life, you cannot work your way to heaven.

He says salvation is a gift. It’s not by your works. This hand represents Jesus Christ, God in the flesh. He came into the world because He loves us, hates our sin because it separates us from the Lord. So Jesus Christ took the sin, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead and said if you and I, if we would believe He did it for us. He had put that payment to our account. We get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did.

Best news in all the world. Let’s pray, shall we? If you’re here tonight and you’ve never trusted Christ as Savior, remember this, God loves you. He knows everything in your life. He knows all the good, he knows all the bad. Still loves you. He sent his son into the world as the proof of his love. to let you know how much He loves you. He gave the most important, precious thing in all the world, His Son, to die on the cross for you, for me, for the whole world.

Said that anybody who’s so ever would believe it. He would give to them eternal life as a free gift. And you and I can know that we’re going to heaven by simply believing that He did that for us. I pray that your trust Christ is your Savior. If you have never done so before, but you’ll do it tonight. If you say, yes, that made sense to me, and I want to be certain of going to heaven when I die and preach our life for you to pray for me.

Would you just slip your hand very quickly and put a right back down? It won’t at all. If you’ve already trusted Christ to save it, you never have to do it again. But if you haven’t done so, smart as move you’ll ever make. Our Father, we thank You so much for the privilege we have of being your children. but also for the great privilege we have to be a vessel prepared, fit for the Master to use. We ask your blessings upon each one year.

In Christ name we pray, Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you are blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll-free. 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. To listen to today’s message again or to obtain a free download of any of our Bible Line programs, just go to our homepage at BibleLineMinistries.org and click on the Radio Broadcast link.

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Caught up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon and just keep looking up.

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Everybody has expectations. That’s why when you stood at the altar and you said the said those words, I do, even after the preacher said those words, you know, and better or for worse, and you expected it to get better and then. And whenever you say those words for richer or for poor, you expect it to get richer. And whenever you say in sickness and in health, you never expect to get sick. You’re gonna be well from now on. Your expectations are not always met.

And so when your expectations are too high, you have a built-in possibility of frustration and disappointment because reality never meets all of your expectations. Well, there is a verse in the Bible and I preach one time, a sermon on getting the desires of your heart because the Bible says, delight I myself and the Lord, and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. But I’ve lived long enough to know that I have not gotten all of my desires, but I have gotten most of my desires.

I’ve gotten some of my desires that I’ve dreamed of and hoped for because they were desires of the Lord, and you can always have those. But there’s other desires that I’ve had and expectations that never have been met. never will. So we’re supposed to live long enough to understand some things that you’re not going to get out of life. Everybody wants to be happy every day of their life and that’s not going to happen. It’s just not going to happen.

You don’t want any troubles in life. That’s not going to happen. I mean, you’re going to have all kinds of troubles and you’re desiring that they don’t happen and you’re going to wish it away. There’s a lot of things that we need to learn from what God’s Word says, but take your Bible, look into book and 2 Corinthians in chapter 3. 2 Corinthians in chapter 3, look in verse 5, not that we are sufficient of ourselves. You ought to underline that statement.

We are not sufficient of ourselves. There’s a lot of things you cannot do. You do not know. You cannot accomplish. And you might as well wake up to the fact you’re not going to have everything you want in life. But the last part of the verse says, sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, and you ought to underline this part of the verse because it says our sufficiency is of God. So I’m supposed to believe that God is sufficient for all that I need.

So set your desires and effects on things that are above things that you can have, because most of the desires that you can’t have are not realistic. And so God has laid some things down in His Word and we’re supposed to realize it and believe that. Take your Bible look in the book of Matthew in chapter 6. But if you’re noticed in verse 30, Matthew chapter 6 and verse 30, this is, therefore, if God so clothed the grass of the field, which today and tomorrow is cast into the oven shall he not much more clothe you O ye of little faith.

Do you believe that God is able to take care of you? And to meet whatever those needs are, do you desire the things of God? You see, you can desire the things of God and get them, but you can desire the things of man and not get them. Now there’s some things you’ll get because you’ll work hard and you’ll try to make it happen. But remember the things of this world are hard to get, hard to keep in great sorrow when you lose them.

Look there also in this verse. In verse 32. And after all these things, do the Gentiles sing, for your heavenly Father knoweth that you have need of all these things. Do you believe that your heavenly Father knows what you have need of? And then he says in verse 33, but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. And all these things shall be added unto you. Seek first the things of God and everything else will be taken care of.

But you see, if you don’t put God first And you put things first, you’re in for a great disappointment. Because if you can learn to be content and happy and satisfied with the things of God, you’ll have so much more peace and joy in this life. You see, the Bible says that the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness in the Holy Spirit, the Book of Romans. So God wants us to seek first His righteousness. What he’s really talking about is, you know and for sure that you have eternal life.

But you seek this first. And in God’s it, everything else will be added to you. Once you trust Christ as your Savior, God gives to you His righteousness. See, I’m not going to heaven on my goodness, on my righteousness. I’m going to heaven on His. my righteousness is not good enough. It wasn’t yesterday and it wasn’t today and it won’t be tomorrow. My righteousness will never be good enough to go to heaven on. So that’s why I don’t trust it.

God said I’m to trust Him and He will give me His righteousness. Now God gave me His righteousness that would meet me as righteous as who? As righteous as Him. As righteous as God. So all I had to do is believe that He did it for me. And He puts that payment to my account and I get to go to heaven I don’t know what he did, but I’m his child now. I gotta life to live. What about all these other things that needs in life?

Some God says there’s things that we need to know and do. So I wrote a few things down. I was sitting in a restaurant one day, and I usually drinking a cup of coffee, and I’ll make a little thought here, and I’ll have a thought, and I’ll write another thing down. Before I got through, I had me a sermon. I didn’t know I was gonna have a sermon. That’s why I get a lot of them. But look there at the first one.

desire an easy road. Now I desire it but I don’t expect it. Now isn’t that true? Think about it. You desire an easy road but you don’t expect an easy road because you know life is full of troubles. Life is full of heartaches. Life there’s a lot of speed bumps. Things that slows you down. Keeps you from getting where you want to go when you want to get there at your timing. So all these things are happening. I would expect everybody.

Well, I desire everybody to like me, but I don’t expect it. Because something’s wrong with their judgment. I’m the most likable guy I know. I don’t know why everybody don’t like me, but you know it wouldn’t take that much and I can offend you and you never talk to me again. I can come to church and I can preach a thousand sermons. I didn’t preach to a bunch of them already, But I can preach one thing that you disagree with and you’ll leave this church and never come back again People do it.

They do it all the time because they can’t stand to be offended You hurt my feelings People were there feelings right up there People need to grow up and get some grit in their backbone where they’re they’re made out of something and Not so easily offended by anything and everything We whine about everything instead of just I know that I’m not going to get everything I want. You can cut people a little slack and realize that people have got problems.

And nobody’s perfect down here. When we get to heaven, yes we’ll be. We won’t have to worry about none of that stuff. Nobody’s going to hurt you. I offend you when you get to heaven. Can’t you wait? And so while you’re down here, realize it. People are going to say things, do things that you’re not going to like. The next thing, I would like to have fame and wealth. Anybody here like to be have fame and wealth? Most people like to be well known.

Everybody wants to be loved. Everybody maybe would have a desire to be famous or to have a lot of wealth. You can desire it, but I don’t expect it. And I wrote a little statement down there in bold, expect nothing and anything will be a bonus. Expect nothing and anything will be a bonus. And that’s probably about the best way to do it with people. If you don’t expect anything, anything will be a bonus. And that way it keeps you from having such great moments of depression.

Maybe you’re sitting here, you’re thing too high and you can’t attain it. Now there’s times when we need to set our aim high and things like that, but that’s not the topic of the sermon this morning. It’s about what is my expectations for life, this period of time that I’ve got to live after I’ve trusted Christ as my Savior. And see, happiness, health, I’ve desired good health all my life, but I don’t always get it. My physical body, I can go to the doctor and he says, you’re fine, next day I get sick.

My father-in-law, he went to the doctor and got a health checkup on him and they said he was at A1 shape, he was 60 years old and great shape, He came home, habits, and heart-tagnets day. And it was a few months later, he died. But he already got a good health checkup. So you may be in good shape today and die tomorrow. So you don’t have any clue when. Right after camp, I was feeling great. And I even said to myself, self, you feel great.

I said, I sure do. And by Wednesday, I got a little cold and next thing you know, I thought, yeah, I’m not have to get somebody to preach for me Sunday. And I hate that. I hate not to speak on Sunday morning. I can tolerate a little bit on Sunday nights on Wednesday, but Sunday morning, I can’t stand it. So even when I’m sick, I’ll preach on Sunday morning. That’s why I’m not going to shake your hands though. I’m not going to be nice to you today.

So when I get through, I’m not going to smile at you or anything like that. Because I don’t want somebody else, I don’t know if it’s catchy, I don’t know if they got a little cold. But that’s not enough to stop anybody. But anyway, I want you to know that you can desire to be healthy every day. And some people say, well, if you get sick, it’s a sign of sin in your life. Oh, really? You’re going to die of something, did you die of sin?

I’ve had people say, well, you know, I haven’t sinned in 40 years. Then they ought not die. Why do they die? Because wages and sin is what? Death. Wades of sin. Death. If they didn’t sin, it wouldn’t die. I don’t care how long you live, you’re going to die because you have a body that doesn’t live forever. And God doesn’t keep it well forever. I died with a perfectly healthy body. Whoopee. And you want to be happy. You can desire, but it’s not going to be reality because happiness comes from happenings.

And when things don’t happen, the way you think they ought to happen, then you’re going to be miserable and you’re not happy. That’s why you’re up here and you’re down here. You’re up there and you’re down here because you expect something that’s not real. God says, as a man is born, the sparks do fly upward. I mean, trouble from the day you’re born, there’s always trouble. always problems and you’re going to have them. So you have to expect those things.

Look at the next little statement I have there. If you do expect all these things, you’re in for a life of disappointment because you’re not always going to have an easy road. You’re not going to have everybody love you and you’re not going to have all the fame and the wealth that you want and you’re not always going to be happy and you’re not always going to be healthy. It’s just not going to be. So if you don’t expect all these things, and you say, well, I don’t expect that okay then what’s your problem and people are just always bothered by the problems and yet if it wasn’t for problems nobody would have a job everybody here has a job because it says somebody else has a problem and we’re problem solvers we’re trying to take a how can I get a job I mean how can

I help solve somebody’s problems I got to find somebody that needs me somebody wants me somebody willing to pay for my wisdom on how to solve something And that’s why we want people to get an education because they’ll have the wisdom to do something help solve somebody else’s problems So as you go through life you’re to understand this not look at number two look at number two Things I don’t expect to get because I already have You know if I already have something I don’t expect to get it the book of Romans chapter 8 puts it this way Why do you hope for that which you have?

Because if you have it you don’t need to hope for it. You already got it See, I am not seeking to be saved someday. Like a lot of people think, Jesus is going to help me live a good life so that someday down the road he’ll save me. Now, if I am going to be saved some day in the future, then what I’m saying is that I’m not saved now. I’m waiting to be saved down the road. So if God can save me down the road, why can he save me now?

If I can’t be saved until the day I die, and then God’s going to save me because he looks at all my life and my good works that I’ve done, and now he can save me. Well, why can’t he save me ahead of time? Why does he have to wait until then? Well, he’d have to wait until I die if my salvation depends upon how I live. So he has to wait until I finish doing all my deeds to know if my good works outweigh my bad work, so he’ll know whether or not to save me.

Save me, or if I qualify to be saved. But see, that means that I must expect to be saved because I am not now saved. But if I already have salvation, I don’t have to seek salvation. See, there’s nothing that I have done in 51 years to be saved. Because see, I was saved when I was 18 years old. And when I got saved, when I was 18 years old, God saved me from hell. Well, if He saved me from hell, it means that I’m not going there.

And if I’m not going there, I’m not trying to do anything to keep from going there because I can’t go there. Why can’t I go there? Because all my sins are paid. If He paid for all of my sins, well, what sins do I have to pay for if He paid for all of them? There isn’t any. Either he did or he didn’t. If he didn’t pay for all of my sins, he didn’t do me any favors. So either he did or he didn’t.

Now did Christ die on the cross and pay for all the sins of all the world? Yes. And all that we have to do is believe he did it for us because it says it’s not by your works. So you gotta leave that out. It means how you live doesn’t determine where you go. You gotta forget that. That’s null and void. because he says not by works of righteousness which we have done, not of works. So forget your works.

That means forget how you live. It has nothing to do with where you’re gonna spend eternity. And that’s what blew my mind when I was 18 years old. I argue with my father on offer three months ago, that says there’s gotta be more to a net. That’s too easy. That’s too simple. And I thought, if it’s so simple, why can’t everybody see it? I had a hard time seeing it, and I wasn’t even raised in church. But to just simply think that I can go to heaven by just trusting what Christ did on the cross for me blew my mind.

And yet there was no tricks to it, no guinex to it. I didn’t have to become a religious hypocrite claiming to be something that I knew down deep inside I wasn’t, but I wanted to go to heaven. I want to have eternal life. I didn’t want to go to hell. But see, nobody had ever stopped to explain how I could be certain of going to heaven when I die. And that was the best news I ever heard in my whole life.

I want you to take your Bible and look at a verse with me. Look there in Ephesians chapter two, Ephesians chapter two and verse eight and nine. And look how important this is. Even though you said, well, I already know those two verses, but look at it anyway. You know, sometimes you can read a verse and not understand the verse. You can read it, quote it, and never really understand it. I had read John 3 16, the night I got saved, and didn’t understand the word of it.

until the man explained it to me. You say, anybody ought to understand. I know, but I didn’t. And I find there’s a lot of people that do the same thing. See there in verse eight, four by grace are ye saved. Saved as past tense. See, this is already written to somebody who is saved, not somebody who is going to be saved. It means you already are. So I’m not expecting to be saved from hell. What? We already am. I can’t go there.

Because see, if he hasn’t saved me from going there, it means I still could go there. And God says, I can’t go there. Why? Because I’ve been saved from it. It’s a past done deal. And he says this, for by grace are you saved through faith that not of yourselves. Now what part of not of yourself would you not understand? Not of yourself means it’s not of yourself. That’s in the Greek. Well, see, this all depends on how you read it.

Okay. Well, here’s how I read that. That not of yourselves. It is the gift of God. I read that is is the gift of God. See, I don’t have to translate it. It’s already been translated. All God does believe what’s already been written. It’s the gift of God. People can’t believe it. Go into heaven as a gift. This gift is free. It means I don’t have to go to church to get it. I don’t have to give money to get it.

I don’t have to change my life to get it because all that would be I’d required to. do something to get it, then it costs me something. There is no cost. There’s no price to pay. It’s free. Free. The gift not of yourself is the gift of God. So being saved and going to heaven is something that I can have now for my grace. Are you saved? I’m saved. I’m saved. I’ve been saved. I’ve been saved for 51 years.

So if I am saved, then I’m not seeking to be saved. Because if I’m seeking to be saved, I’m saying that I am not saved. If I’m going to Colorado, it means that I’m not there yet. How can I say it any other way? Surely you can understand what I’m saying. Am I hard and complicated? Can you follow what I’m saying? You can follow me. So God says here in verse 9, look in verse 9, look at those three words, Not of what?

What works do you think he’s talking about? Not of works. Not of works would probably mean not of works. It means nothing that I do determines where I go. And this is why so many people can’t believe that it’s free because they can’t believe that God would save them by grace. You don’t deserve that. But what is grace? Grace means unmerited favor. God giving you something you didn’t deserve. I don’t deserve to go to heaven. I never have. I never will.

You see, God saved me because He loved me because He sent His Son to pay for all of my sins. And I accepted Him as my Savior. He gives me to life and I go to heaven whenever I die. Otherwise, nobody can know they’re going to heaven until they die. If it’s not free and you have to earn it, it’s only two ways. That means if you have to earn it, you have to wait till you die to find out if you got it or not.

Well, you can wait till then if you want to. I think it’s a little late because God’s going to tell you. You see, you’re either saved by grace or works and you didn’t trust Christ as your Savior, so you didn’t accept grace. So that means you’re trying to save yourself by your works. And I already told you it’s not by your works. I don’t know why you waited so long to get here to find this out. I told you in my word, didn’t you ever read Ephesians 2, 8, and 9?

I said it very clearly. You’re not saved by your words. Now why are you trying in here trying to think you’re going to get into heaven by your works? I can see all that taking place. And yet there’s people that don’t see it, that never get it. Now take your Bible and look in the book of Titus chapter 3. Titus and chapter 3. Titus chapter 3, this is on page 12, 84. And you’ll notice there in verse five. Verse five, look at what he says, not by works of righteousness, which we have done.

But according to his mercy, he what? Saved us, that’s a done deal. It’s already done. So I have been saved not by my works of righteousness. And yet you find people that think, you’ve got to do something. I’ve had people that say, you can’t tell me and you sure can’t. God can’t tell them either. You can’t tell me that all you have to do is believe. And yet what is the only requirement for going to heaven? For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever, believe it, won’t perish, but have everlasting life.

He that believeth unto Son hath life, and he that believeth not the Son of God hath not life. But the wrath of God abides upon Him. He that believeth unto Him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already because he believeth not. You see, it all boils down to, do you believe it or not? You say, what do I gotta believe? All right, here you are, you’re sitting. You do all these bad things, you deserve to go to hell.

Christ and his son. Christ comes into the world. Got to any son. So Christ comes into the world and he had no sense or he doesn’t have to die. So he voluntarily dies in your place. He dies for all of your sins. And see what people don’t get is this. It is appointed under every man once an act of this to judgment. So if you’re only going to die once, regardless of how many sins you commit, how many times do you die?

One time. So if Christ dies for you, he only has to die one time for you. So that means that you’re going to die. it even though I live 70 years and then I croak. Okay, well, how many times did I die? Only one time. Me for all those sins, but it doesn’t matter how many sins. I only died once. Christ only died once to pay for all the sins of all the world. So that means if He died for me, He paid for all of my sins.

He died in my place. So if I had died 20 years ago or if I died 20 years in the future, He died for me in my place. And all that I have to do is believe He did it for me. He did it for me. Christ died for me. So I don’t have to pay for my sins. This old body is going to die in the grave one of these days. But I have a new birth that’s going to live forever.

I’m going to live till I die. And then I’m going to live forever. I sure am. Look at this verse again. Verse 5, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit. See the new birth is by the Spirit of God. That’s a new birth. It didn’t come because you went to church and you live right and you try to go according to Christian principles and you lived all these ways And so that’s not going to get you to heaven.

You know, I never promised that. And so that’s why it’s deceptive on your part to try to think you could ever save yourself by the things that you do. Eternal life is truly a gift of God. You see, let her be there, or it says justification from all my sins. I want you to look at this. Look in Acts chapter 13, the book of Acts in chapter 13. It’s a very, very important verse.

Acts chapter 13, and look in verse 38. Be it known unto you therefore, man and brethren, that through this man, talking about Christ, is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins. See, if God forgives you of your sins, there’s none for you to pay for. What if he forgave you? So when Christ died for you, and you believe he did it for you, He forgives you of everything you’ve ever done. Your sins are forgiven. So that means you don’t have to pay for them.

I don’t have to pay for my sins. Christ did it for me. That’s hard for me to accept because when I was growing up, I was always under the impression if I’m good, I’ll go to heaven and if I’m bad, I’m going to go to hell. I didn’t know that and understand that Christ paid for my sins. So that’s why for years, I did my best. I wanted to go to heaven. So I tried to live right. I tried to live a good life.

I tried to be a good kid. I really did. But I didn’t understand. And so when everyone I was growing up as a kid, before I even knew anything about it, I never took a drink in my life. I was always afraid I might like it. Now I didn’t want to become a drunk. I never smoked a cigarette because I was told it was bad for you. So I never smoked a cigarette. I never swore cuss word. And I’m almost 70 years old.

I still haven’t done none of those things. Am I going to heaven because I’m so good? No. By your righteousness, you’re never good. You have to be perfect to go to heaven. And nobody’s perfect. That’s why nobody can earn eternal life. Nobody works their way to heaven. No man has ever lived good enough to save himself. All people have to be saved the same way by grace. Either God saves you or you don’t get saved. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s concluding message of this teaching will be a blessing to you and your family. Now did Christ dial the cross and paper all the sins of all the world? Yes. And all that we have to do is believe He did it for us because it says it’s not by your works. So you got to leave that out. It means how you live doesn’t determine where you go.

You got to forget that. That’s null and void because it says not by works of righteousness which we have done. Not of works. So forget your works. That means how you live. I’ve had has nothing to do with where you’re going to spend eternity. And that’s what blew my mind when I was 18 years old. I argue with my father-in-law for three months ago, I said, there’s got to be more to admit. That’s too easy. That’s too simple. And I thought, if it’s so simple, why can’t everybody see it?

I had a hard time seeing it, and I wasn’t even raised in church. But to just simply think that I can go to heaven by just trusting what Christ did on the cross for me blew my mind. And yet there was no tricks to it, no gimmicks to it. I didn’t have to become a religious hypocrite, claiming to be something that I knew down deep inside I wasn’t. But I wanted to go to heaven. I want to have eternal life.

I didn’t want to go to hell. But see, nobody had ever stopped that explained how I could be certain of going to heaven when I die. And that was the best news I ever heard in my whole life. I want you to take your Bible and look at a verse with me. Look there in Ephesians chapter two. Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 8 and 9.

And look how important this is, even though you said, well, I already know those two verses, well, look at it anyway. You know, sometimes you can read a verse and not understand the verse. You can read it, quote it, and never really understand it. I had read John 3 16, the night I got saved, and didn’t understand the word of it, until the man explained it to me. You saw anybody out on the stand. I know, but I didn’t.

And I find there’s a lot of people that do the same thing. See there in verse eight, four by grace are ye saved. Saved as past tense. See this is already written to somebody who is saved, not somebody who is going to be saved. It means you already are. So I’m not expecting to be saved from hell. What? We already am. I can’t go there. Because see if he hasn’t saved me from going there, it means I still could go there.

And God says, I can’t go there. Why? Because I’ve been saved from it. It’s a past done deal. And He says this, for by grace are you saved through faith that not of yourselves? Now what part of not of yourself would you not understand? Not of yourself means it’s not of yourself. That’s in the Greek. Well see, it’s all depending on how you read it. Okay, well here’s how I read that. that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.

I read that is the gift of God. See, I don’t have to translate, it’s already been translated. All God does is believe what’s already been written. It’s the gift of God. People can’t believe that going to heaven is a gift. This gift is free. It means I don’t have to go to church to get it. I don’t have to give money to get it. I don’t have to change my life to get it because all that would be I’d required to do something to get it.

Then it costs me something. There is no cost. There’s no price to pay. It’s free, free. The gift, not of yourself, it’s the gift of God. So being saved and going to heaven is something that I can have now. For my grace are you saved, I’m saved. Past Him, I’m saved. I’ve been saved, I’ve been saved for 51 years. So if I am saved, then I’m not seeking to be saved. Because if I’m seeking to be saved, I’m saying that I am not saved.

If I’m going to call right on me, that I’m not there yet. How can I say it any other way? Surely you can understand what I’m saying. Am I hard and complicated? Can you follow what I’m saying? You can follow me. So God says here in verse 9, look at those three words, not of what? What? What works do you think he’s talking about? Not of works. Not of works would probably mean not of works. It means nothing that I do.

determines where I go. And this is why so many people can’t believe that it’s free, because they can’t believe that God would save them by grace. You don’t deserve that. But what is grace? Grace means unmerited favor. God given you something you didn’t deserve. I don’t deserve to go to heaven. I never have. I never will. You see, God saved me because He loved me because He sent His Son to pay for all of my sins, and I accepted Him as my Savior.

He gives me to her life, and I go to heaven whenever I die. Otherwise, nobody can know they’re going to heaven until they die. If it’s not free and you have to earn it, it’s only two ways. That means if you have to earn it, you have to wait till you die to find out if you got it or not. Well, you can wait till then if you want to. I think it’s a little late Because God’s going to tell you, you see, you’re either saved by grace or works, and you didn’t trust Christ as your Savior, so you didn’t accept grace.

So that means you’re trying to save yourself by your works. And I already told you it’s not by your works. I don’t know why you waited so long to get here to find this out. I told you in my Word, didn’t you ever read Ephesians 2, 8, and 9? I said it very clearly, you’re not saved by your works. Now why are you trying to think you’re going to get into heaven by your works? I can see all that taking place.

And yet there’s people that don’t see it, they never get it. Now take your Bible and look in the book of Titus chapter 3. Titus and chapter 3. Titus chapter 3, this is on page 1284. And you’ll notice there in verse 5. 953, look at what he says, not by works of righteousness, which we have done. But according to His mercy, He what? Saved us. That’s a done deal. It’s already done. So I have been saved not by my works of righteousness.

And yet you find people that think, you’ve got to do something. I’ve had people say, you can’t tell me and you sure can’t. God can’t tell them either. You can’t tell me that all you have to do is believe. And yet what is the only requirement for going to heaven? For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that who so ever… Believe it. Won’t perish but have everlasting life. He that believeth on the Son half life and He that believeth not the Son of God half not life.

But the wrath of God abides upon Him. He didn’t believe it on him is not condemned, but he didn’t believe it not is condemned already because he believed it not. You see, it all boils down to do you believe it or not. You say, what do I got to believe? Here you are, you’re a senator. You do all these bad things. You deserve to go to hell. Christ in his son. Christ comes into the world. He got to any son.

So Christ comes into the world and he had no sense, so he doesn’t have to die. So he vauded in your place. He dies for all of your sins. And see what people don’t get is this. It is appointed under every man, wants to die and act this to judgment. So if you’re only going to die once, regardless of how many sins you commit, how many times do you die? One time. So if Christ dies for you, He only has to die one time for you.

So that means that even though I lived 70 years and then I croaked. Okay, well, how many times did I die? Only one time. Me for all those sins, but it doesn’t matter how many sins. I only died once. Christ only died once to pay for all the sins of all the world. So that means if He died for me, He paid for all of my sins. He died in my place. So if I died 20 years ago, or if I died 20 years in the future, he died for me in my place.

And all that I have to do is believe he did it for me. He did it for me. Christ. So I don’t have to pay my sins. The whole body is going to die in the grave when these things happen. But I have a new birth. I’m going to live till I die. Then I’m going to live forever. I sure am. Look at this verse again. into the Holy Spirit. See the new birth is by the Spirit of God.

That’s a new birth. It didn’t come because you went to church and you live right and you try to go according to Christian principles and you lived, all these ways and so on. That’s not gonna get you to heaven. You gotta never promise that. And so that’s why it’s deceptive on your part to try to think you could ever save yourselfossibility by the things that you do. Eternal life is truly a gift of God. You see, let her be there, or says justification from all my sins.

I want you to look at this. Look in Acts chapter 13, the book of Acts in chapter 13. So very, very important verse. Acts chapter 13 and look in verse 38. Be it known unto you therefore, man and brethren, that through this man, talking about Christ, is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins. See if God forgives you of your sins, there’s none for you to pay for it. Or if He forgave you. So when Christ died for you and you believe He forgives you of everything you’ve ever done, your sins are forgiven.

So that means you don’t have to pay for them. I don’t have to pay for my sins. Christ did it for me. That’s hard for me to accept because when I was growing up, I was always under the impression, If I’m good, I’ll go to heaven. And if I’m bad, I’m gonna go to hell. I didn’t know that, and understand that Christ paid for my sins. So that’s why for years, I did my best. I wanted to go to heaven, so I tried to live right.

I tried to live a good life. I tried to be a good kid. I really did. But I didn’t understand. And so whenever I was growing up as a kid, before I even knew anything about it, I never took a drink in my life. I was always afraid I might like it. And I didn’t want to become a drunk. I never smoked a cigarette because I was told it was bad for you. So I never smoked a cigarette. I never swore cuss word.

And I’m almost seven years old. I still haven’t done none of those things. Am I going to heaven because I’m so good? No. By your righteousness, you’re never good. You have to be perfect to go to heaven. And nobody’s perfect. That’s why nobody can earn eternal life. Nobody works their way to heaven. No man has ever lived good enough to save himself. All people have to be saved the same way by grace. Either God saves you or you don’t get saved.

And if you trust Christ today’s your Savior, He saves you today. If you get saved tomorrow, then He saves you tomorrow. If He saves you 10 years ago, He got saved you 10 years. But whatever is He, you don’t have to seek something you already have. He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. See, the reason I don’t have to try to get eternal life is because I already have it. The Bible says, this is the true God referring to Christ.

This is the true God and eternal life. When you have Christ, you have eternal life because Jesus Christ is eternal life. And when I trust that Christ is my savior, the Bible says the Holy Spirit of God dwelt inside of me. And if I’ve got Christ, I’ve got eternal life. And he said, I’ll never leave you, and I’ll never forsake you. Never leave you. Never forsake me. Never. Never means never. And he is eternal life. So how long will I have eternal life?

Forever. Forever. That’s the only way you can know that you’re gonna make it someday. I know I’m going to go to heaven. I don’t have to hope and guess and wonder. I can’t lose something because I didn’t earn it to get it. And you see, if God can save me at the end of my life, by grace, why can’t He save me now by grace? And if God can save me now, in spite of all those bad things that I’ve done, why can’t He keep me saved, in spite of all the bad things I will do?

You say, well, you don’t deserve, I didn’t deserve that either. I didn’t deserve to be saved here because of all those bad things. And I’m not going to deserve to be saved after all these bad things. It doesn’t matter. Grace is grace. God loves me that way. You say, wait, don’t you think you ought to serve a Lord? Well, of course. I’ve been trying to serve a Lord the best I know how for 50 years. But that has nothing to do with me going to heaven.

I’m going to heaven because of his love for me. I serve him because of my love for him. And if you love the Lord, you want to live for the Lord, and you want to live a godly life. Whatever people tell you that you have to do and you have to live like this and go to church and pay and do money, I do all of that. I’ll go to heaven according to anybody’s religion, except God’s. I’m only going there because I trusted Christ as my Savior years ago.

And I say, only wait, see there in that verse, look in verse 39. And by Him Christ, all that do what? Believe. Are justified from what? All things. So all of these things that you need to be justified from, as though you didn’t do them, to be cleared. All you got to do is believe. I didn’t write this verse. But should I change it because I don’t agree with it? Should I alter it? Because I just can’t believe that.

Evidently God didn’t know what he was saying here. You don’t alter the word of God. You don’t change the book. God loves us so much. See, I’m not seeking to be justified because already am. I’m not seeking the gift of eternal life because I already am. I’m not trying to be a child of God someday. I already am. It’s a done deal. That was the best news I ever heard. And see once you trust Christ to save you and your God’s child.

Now there’s a few other things I do want you to see that you can’t expect and I’ll go through the very quickly. Psalm chapter 62 you can read that verse when you get a chance to but I want you to read those scriptures there. Because Because it’s simply saying that my expectation should be of the Lord. As you and I live our lives, the Lord is my sufficiency. He’s all I need. Remember that little song we sing, Christ is all I need.

He’s all I need. The Lord is all you need. But you see, you have to know that and understand that. But see, once you trust that Christ is your Savior and I have eternal life and I’m going to heaven whenever I die, well I haven’t died yet. I happen to have lived 51 years since I trust the Lord, but He’s still all I need. And if I put Him first, God said, You take care of the rest, and I trust Him to do that.

So you see here at letter A, 1 John 1, 9 says, God will forgive my sins when I fail. I believe that. I believe that as a child of God, when I don’t do the things that I ought to do, what I don’t think right, and when I commit things in my mind or actions, and I hurt somebody’s feelings and things like that, and bitterness or anger. I know that, I know, I know. My father, or wife, to slate clean, and I confess it to him.

You see, he does that because this is for fellowship between me and him. And I know that I can keep walking with the Lord. Do you know the perfect will of God lies as close as the next decision you make? If you only think about that. The next thing, first John chapter three, verse 22, God, I expect him to answer my prayers. I’m a child of God. I’ve got access to my Heavenly Father. And I know that my Heavenly Father, here’s the prayers of the righteous.

We spoke on this just last week about God answering our prayers. And some prayers that are be hindered because of sin between you and your Father. So God tells us, and I know that if I talk to the Lord and pray according to His wealth, I can expect God to hear. I can expect God to answer. We see it’s always desires of the will of God for my life. In Hebrews chapter 12, it talks about chasening. See, as a child of God, can I live as I please?

Yes, I can. Can I get away with it? No, I can’t because my Heavenly Father is going to chasen me and discipline me. So you can have children born into your family. It’s every time they do something wrong they get unborn? You wish. No. They’re still born and still of there and they’re still yours. But when they do something wrong, do you ever chase in your children? Correct them? It’s not because you hate them. It’s because you love them.

So you’re chasing your children. Why? Because they’re still yours. The only reason God can chase in me as his child is because I’m still his child. If every time I did something wrong, I’m not his child. Can’t touch me. I’m not yours. I wouldn’t try that. But because I’m a child of God, I know my Heavenly Father will chase me. I expect him to chase me, to beat the Torah to me, and he hasperialized the right to take me home early because of my rebellious attitude or spirit.

I can expect God to intervene. In 1 Corinthians 10, 13, I expect God to deliver me from temptation because he’s going to make a a wave escape. And if I look for the wave escape, I know God will deliver me from every trial, every temptation. Some of them he’ll let you go right through the middle of them on the trials, temptations he wants to deliver you from. The trials and tribulations, the hardships and things like any life, a lot of times he just wants to walk with you through it.

There’s thing he wants you to go through. There’s other thing he wants you to stay away from. God tempts no man to sin. God is not a sinner. He’s an tempt you to sin. That’s because of your own lust of your own heart, your own simple desires, not gods. First Peter chapter 4, where it says that you can expect, he says, think it not a strange thing concerning the fiery trial which is to try you because you’re going to suffer in this life.

You’re going to suffer. You see, in this, life, everything happens that causes us some sufferings. And we’re always trying to figure out a way to have some joy and peace and happiness in the midst of all of our sufferings. But sometimes it seems like your long dry spells. But you’re going to suffer. I expect my Heavenly Father. I expect Him to allow me to suffer. Whether it’s in the physical body or finances with people, I expect that I’m going to offend you.

I am not going to please everybody in here all the time. It is impossible. I know and I expect. I don’t have to desire it, but I expect it because it’s just reality. You married to that husband or that wife of yours? You ought to know right now. You are going to offend her or you’re going to offend him. You’re going to wrong each other. You can either forgive each other and love each other or murder each other. What a lot of people do.

Am I advocating you to go home and murder your wife? No. Don’t you try to put words in my mouth. But some of you are just looking for a reason. Don’t you use this preacher for that? The next one, God to comfort me when I sorrow. Do you expect God to comfort you when you sorrow? Because you’re going to sorrow. You’re going to hurt. You’re going to grieve. I don’t believe that Betty over here is enjoying watching her husband, Alex, laying in that bed, knowing that it won’t be long before he’s gonna leave this world.

She will grieve and she will hurt. And she’s gonna have sorrow. But she knows that and she can expect that. But I also expect God says He will comfort us why we sorrow and why we hurt and why we grieve. What lessons did God have to teach you yet? What are your expectations? I expect that whenever I leave this old world and I get to be with the Lord in heaven, I expect God to reward me when I get to heaven.

Rewards are earned. Rewards are things that God gives to me because of what I did. See, after I trusted Christ as my Savior, going to heaven, that was free. That was what he did for me. And as I live my life because of what he did for me, I know that when I get to heaven, God’s gonna reward me. And I expect God to keep his word and God will keep his word. And in closing, I do expect, I expect it, cause it’s real.

I expect the devil to fight me every step of the way. Don’t you? So that means you know that he’s gonna come at you. One way or the other, any way you can. He’ll do it to the husband, to the wife, to the kids, to the aunts and the uncles and in-laws and outlaws. He’s going to come at you some way. And he’s not going to ever leave you alone. He wants to cause you to question and doubt that the Bible is true or that God can save you by grace.

He wants you to question and doubt everything. He started that in the Garden of Eden with Adam, and even he ain’t stopped yet. Jesse was telling you about this little wallet of the illustration and said, what was that? I’m glad you asked. Let me show you. This is you and me. Wallach, this is sin. God says that we have all, we’ve all sinned. Now God says that He loves us, but He hates what we do wrong, but He loves us.

And for us, we gotta pay for that. We committed a sin, we ought to pay for it. We owe it dead. And the payment is eternal separation from God in hell. So everybody’s in the same boat. Nobody’s any better than anybody else. God loves us and wants us to go to heaven, go to heaven, you’ve got to be perfect, because righteous is God. And there’s the problem. None of us are perfect. And so you see, the only way you can be in heaven is to be perfect.

And we’re not perfect. So how are we going to be perfect by our works? Impossible can’t happen. So God says, your works are as filthy rags, all of your righteousness. So don’t even try to offer to God. Lord, I go to church, I sing and acquire, I do this, I do that, I give money. That has nothing to do with nothing. Zero, the people that only get that, yet in the back of most people’s minds, well, I’ll do it just in case.

It means you don’t believe what God said. It means you don’t really believe what God says. You can’t earn it. Don’t try. Don’t try to give him a quarter for a Mercedes. They cost more than that. This ain’t represent Jesus Christ. He’s God in the flesh. He came into the world because he loves us. Our sin because it separates us from him. So Jesus Christ who had no sin didn’t have to die. So He took all of our sins of the whole world.

Paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead. And God says if you and I, if we would believe that He did it for us, He’d put that payment that I owe. He put it to my account. My debt is paid. My sins are forgiven. But the payment’s not put to your account till you believe that He did it for you. And the moment you believe it, He saves you from hell. It means that from this point on, you can’t go there.

You’ve been saved from it. And He’ll never cast you out, never lose you. You go to heaven because of what He did for you. He loves you that much. And God says, these things have I written unto you? That believe, on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. Can you know you have eternal life? The best news in all the world. There’s no gimmicks to it. You don’t have to join this church to go to heaven.

You don’t have to give any money to go to heaven. You don’t have to change your life. You just need to admit to God, you’re a sinner. Everybody knows it anyway. You might as well admit it. God already knows it. So it’s just a matter of being honest. I’m a sinner and you can’t save yourself. That’s why you need a savior. Christ is the only one. You eat the trust, Him, and go to heaven, or you reject Him, and you’ll spend eternity separated from God in hell.

I pray that your trust, Christ, is your Savior. Let’s pray, shall we? If you hear this morning, say, preachers, that made sense to me. I realize that I’ve never really trusted Christ as my Savior. Friends, you can be religious all your life and never really trust the Lord. I’m not God. I can’t save anybody. I can only tell you what his book says. I can only tell you that if you trust Christ, he will save you and give you eternal life as a freak yet.

Would you trust him? Would you just talk to the Lord? You see, I’m gonna ask you in just a moment to raise your hand, raising your hand doesn’t save you. It just lets me know that what I said made sense to you. And I just wanna know if what I said made sense to you and you say, yes, I will trust Christ as my savior this morning. So in the quietness of this moment, is there anyone who says, yes, I will trust Christ as my only hope of going to heaven and break child life for you to pray for me?

Would you sleep in it very quickly and better right back down? Anyone at all? Many of you have already trusted Christ of Savior. I know that. But there may be someone that’s never trusted. Our Father, we thank You so much for this time together. We thank You Lord for each person here. And Lord, I pray that each one will understand to put their expectations in the Lord. Thank you for this time together. Bless each person in Christ and we pray.

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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s message will be a blessing to you and your family. In the book of John chapter 3, Jesus Christ is speaking. He says some things that are very, very potent. If you want to know if there is a division among people, you can see it very clearly here. As some people call it, there’s the saints and the aunts. There’s the believers and the unbelievers, the saved, the lost.

those that are going to heaven and those that are not going to heaven. The God that made the heavens and the year speaks of his great wonderful love that he has for the human race. When he says in John 3, 16, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. The whosoever believe it in him should not perish but have everlasting life. You can’t get a greater love than that. And at the same time that you have him speaking about is great love that he has for people.

Why does he have to talk about his wrath? Why is he going to talk about his hatred of sin? Well, because see, that’s how God showed how much he loved by letting you know his thoughts on sin, which you and I have committed, and his hatred toward the sin but is love toward us and yet to provide a payment for the sin and then only to have people rebel or reject Him and not accept Him. See to reject Christ is to reject the love of God.

So if you reject Christ you are rejecting a payment for your sins and if you don’t have this payment and accept this payment for your sins, then you will have the wrath of Almighty God upon you.” Look there in verse 36. In verse 36, he that believeth on the son hath everlasting life. He that believeth. He anybody. Believeth the only thing that’s required. Nothing else required, but believe. Means you must believe that when Christ died and He paid for your sins that you trust Him to take you to heaven when you die.

If you believe that, God said that He gives you as a free gift everlasting life and you can claim it now and you can say I have everlasting life because He says He that believe it hath everlasting life. Now the other side of the coin, the other side, what about What the person who doesn’t believe it is God going to give them a second chance after death? No, there’s no second chances. Well, didn’t God love them? Yes, God loved them.

But God is a just God. And he says they’re in the last part of verse 36. And he that believe it, not the Son. That means you do not trust him. Shall not see life. That’s eternal life. You will not see eternal life. It doesn’t mean you won’t exist forever because you will exist forever, but you won’t have eternal life. It means you don’t have the eternal life, the quality of life, God’s life living within you in the place where God dwells in a place of paradise for all eternity.

But you will always exist, but it’s forever dying and never dying. We will be forever living eternal. And he makes the last statement here in the last part of the verse, but the wrath of God abided upon him. You cannot deny if you believe John 3 16 for God so loved the world, then you also must believe that there is the wrath of God upon every unbeliever. Every unbeliever, God’s wrath, is kind of like this. If this is you and me and we have sin on us, you and I committed the sin and we live under the wrath of God.

And one day when we die, God’s wrath is going to fall upon us. Now, the only way you can eliminate the wrath of God upon you as an individual is to believe that when Christ came, this hand-ripping in Christ, He took your sins. When Christ took the sins of the world, God let His wrath fall upon His Son, and His Son took the wrath of God for my sins and for your sins. But if you reject the payment that he made, then God’s wrath is upon you.

Look there in verse 18 of the same chapter, but verse 18, very important. He that believeth on him is not condemned. That means if you believe it, you trust Christ as your Savior, you are not condemned. God’s wrath does not come upon you, you’re not condemned because he was condemned in your place. but not get the last part of verse 18. But he that believeth not is condemned when. Already, see, you’re not waiting until someday in the future to be condemned.

You are already condemned. You are now condemned. And that’s why you need a savior now. If you do not accept his salvation before you die, there is no more opportunities. You are then under the wrath of God for all eternity. That’s awesome when you think about that. And I know that there’s many people that do not even believe that there is a God. But that doesn’t do away with the fact that God still exists, His Word is still true.

If somebody can disprove it to me, I wish they would try. I’d love to see some of these mistakes and contradictions and all that stuff in the Bible. I’ve been studying it for almost 40 years and I haven’t found any of them that everybody tells me about. I found the Bible to be a trustworthy book, very reliable. If it speaks on science, it’s true. Speaks on history, it’s true. Whatever it speaks on, it’s true. And I have tried the principles that are laid down in the book.

I found out they are true too. When the Bible says in the book of Genesis in chapter 1, where it says, in the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters because the earth was without form and it was void. And he says he moved over the darkness and God created light. I believe that. I believe that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. I don’t believe that it was evolved and that God created by the process of evolution.

See if you believe that means you don’t understand either one. The Bible does not teach on evolution. God condemns anyone or anything that takes away from the truth of His Word and those who trust in rocks or stalks or anything by which they think they came from that. God says that’s false. God’s Word says evolution is not true. God’s Word says that. And I believe the Bible. The wrath of God that is upon every individual has also been seen upon the nations of the world.

Every great kingdom that has come upon the scene and passed off the scene is only a remembrance of the wrath of God upon their wickedness. America is under, I believe, the wrath of God, and it’s going to fall, the wrath of God on America will fall. You say, how do you know that? Because the Bible teaches that. The Bible says that all nations in the end time will gather themselves against a little nation of Israel, and all nations will gather themselves unto the Valley of Jehoshaphat and the plains of Jezreel at the place called McGetto.

And the Bible says that God is going to come down after He pulls all these nations into this great big valley. And he’s going to look at these people as though they were grapes and the Bible says he’s going to take his feet and stomp the grapes until the blood runs to the height of the horses bridle for 200 miles. That’s what God says he’s going to do to all the nations that fought against Israel. And then the Bible says that Israel will become the greatest nation in the world.

And all nations will know that there only one true and living God, and they will come to Jerusalem to not only worship God in Jerusalem, but to see God in Jerusalem. He’s coming. That day is ahead of us. You see, I don’t have to see all of this with my naked eye. I can see it with my eye of faith because I believe the Bible. If anybody can believe that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, you can believe that this book is true.

And you’ll see things other people can do. don’t see, but they’ll be truth. You see, this is where the real world is. I’ve had people tell me one time, says, Yankie, what are you going to do when you get out in that real world out there? It isn’t real out there. It’s real where I am and what I believe and what I see and what I understand, that’s real and that’s truth. And I’ll stand there and I’ll die there and it’s been good enough for me for almost 58 years.

I think the Lord’s been pretty good to me and I’m thankful for that. But I want you to take your Bible and turn to the book of Romans in chapter 5. Romans and chapter 5. The Bible says that every individual is an enemy of God. You may not know that. You may not have thought you were. But if you have not accepted Christ as your Savior, you are His enemy. You’re against Him. He’s against you. But He loves you.

He wants to make peace between you and Him. But you didn’t have what it took to make peace. You said, what did it take? Perfection. You didn’t qualify. So God is against your sin, even though you try to hide it or deny it or run from it. God sees sin. And the Bible says, God despises and hate sin because God is a righteous and a holy God. And God says that you are His enemy, and He has wrath towards you.

And if you do not accept the peace offering that He made towards you, then you are going to get His wrath. And every person that is permitted to live every day has an opportunity to accept this peace offering. That peace offering was his son. His son was offered to make peace between God and man. The man Christ Jesus, the mediator. There is no other. So he says here in verse 9 of chapter 5 of Romans, much more than being now justified by his blood.

We shall be saved from wrath through him. For if when we were sinners before you did that, you were his enemy. We were enemies against God and God has wrath toward us. But when you accepted that peace offering that he put towards you and And you accepted it, then the Bible says we have peace with God. Look in verse one of chapter five. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God. I’m not God’s enemy. I’ve made peace with God.

Have you ever heard about people before they die? Look, have you made peace with God? That is so important because you’re going to die. The Bible says after this, the judgment. this a judgment. But have you made peace with God all of life, whether you lived twenty years, thirty years, fifty years, a hundred years, all of life is preparation for you to meet God. Think about it. All you’re doing and every decision you make, whatever you’re doing and wherever you’re going through, it’s preparation for you to meet God.

Because God is going to hold you accountable for every thought, word, and deed. You’re going to face Him. The Bible says in the Old Testament, prepare to meet thy God. Prepare to meet thy God. We have people today that deny that there is a God. They don’t believe in a God. But that’s all right. God still exists and they’re still going to meet Him. And God says, every knee shall bow, every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord to the glory of God the Father.

In other words, it means that there is a day coming which every person who has ever lived will confess that Jesus Christ, he was God. And God the Father will see the glory because the people will finally have to admit it. But with many people, it’ll be too late. Forever, too late. Jesus Christ is God and we were enemies. And you’re his enemy until you trust Christ as your Savior. But if you do not trust the Lord, the wrath of God still abides upon you.

And you never know when the wrath of God will fall. Take your Bible, look there in Romans in chapter two. You’ll notice there in verse two of chapter two, but we are sure that the judgment of God, and you’re on the line this phrase, according to truth. It’s according to truth. against them which commit such things. So there is a God who is going to judge people who commit certain acts of wickedness. They’re mentioned there in Romans chapter 1.

People don’t have to believe there’s a God. That doesn’t do away with God. This one atheist was talking to a little girl. Says, do you believe the Bible? She said, yes sir, I believe the Bible. Bible. He said, you believe in the story of John and the whale? Yes, yes I do. And when I get to heaven, I’m going to talk to him about it. He said, well what if he’s not there when you get there? Well then you ask him.

Yes, I believe that there is a God. And just because somebody else doesn’t believe it doesn’t shake my faith. It doesn’t make me weak doesn’t make me question, doesn’t make me doubt. I just wonder why they’re so stupid. So naive to think that everything created itself by the process of evolution, which there is no evidence, no truth of. You came from a one-celled amoeba? Oh come on. We still got one-celled amoebas? We got anything coming from them? No. We came from some common ancestor down the road.

We got him you around? No. Well we came from half monkeys and half people. Well, where is this one? There’s no intermediates, there’s no links, how blind. Where’s all these half people and half apes running around? There isn’t anything like that. Everything reproduces after its own kinds, just like it says in a book of Genesis. Thank you. Now here in Romans, he says here in verse 3, and think is dalvis, Oh man, that judges them which do such things and do it the same that thou shall escape the judgment of God.

In other words, there are people who believe they will escape the judgment of God. And they’re not going to because God is just. He said every man shall receive according to his own works. God. He says in verse 4, or despises thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long suffering not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth into repentance, but after by hardness and impenitent heart, it means you don’t believe. Your heart had its death next. He says not knowing that the goodness of God lead through to repentance, but after the hardness and impenitent heart treasures up unto myself and you are to line this word wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God who will render to every man according to his deeds.

Now that’s what the Bible says. And I believe the Bible. I don’t believe there’s one man living in the world that’s going to get away. Either you accept the payment Christ made for you and you make peace with God before you die or God’s judgment, God’s wrath is upon that individual for all eternity. You say, well, they get away, but so much they won’t get away with anything. Nobody does. I, as a Christian, if I decide, well, I can live like I please.

I can try, but I cannot get away with it. My heavenly Father will chase in me, take me home before my time, or put me while I’m here, and I don’t know what it would be, but I don’t care to find out. If somebody else decides to serve the Lord, God will bless them. See, everybody gets exactly what they deserve. You’re going to get exactly what you deserve. Just don’t try to judge too soon. It’s not over. God hasn’t judged you yet.

He hasn’t either fully blessed you yet or rewarded you yet. See, when you get to heaven, you’re going to heaven was not because of what you did, because Christ made peace with you. He was the peace offering. He took your wrath. So you don’t have to answer for all those sins that would condemn your soul to hell. That penalty has been paid for. Now the Bible says as far as you, you can have his blessings and his rewards, but it’ll be according to whatever you did.

Every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. So you’ll get what you deserve. It doesn’t matter whether people do or don’t appreciate you, don’t appreciate you, reward or juke behind you for you against you. That has nothing to do with anything. There is a righteous judge, God, who is going to take care of you. If you do what God says to do, God is going to bless you. You’re supposed to believe that. And God will honor you.

Look there in Romans chapter 1 and verse 18. You can’t deny that it’s in the Bible. There is a dark side of all of this stuff. Oh yes, there’s a bright side, a one long eternal day, no night there. Bible says the wrath of God, that period of time that comes upon the face of the year, is a time of darkness and no light. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness or resist the truth in unrighteousness or if you tied in to verse 25 who changed the truth of God into a lie.

that what God said isn’t true. Say it’s a lie. Say it’s a Bible is a lie. See, whenever you teach evolution, what you’re saying is that there is no God. When you teach evolution, what you’re saying is the Bible is a lie. That’s what they’re teaching when they teach evolution. So you teach the kids that they’re animals. After a while, why be upset if they act like it? Evolution is a religion. And the Supreme Court of the United States has declared the teaching of humanism, which is evolutionary teaching a religion.

It’s not even supposed to be inortiums. But we allow them to take over. So they are intelligent and they’re smart and they’re brilliant. The Bible says it this way. In verse 21, because that when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful and became vain in their imagination. And their foolish heart was darkened, professing themselves to be wise, they became what? That’s what they are. Any person who believes in evolution, I don’t care what university, what college, where they teach how many degrees after their name, their fools, and anybody that believes them are fools.

I want you to know that you can’t be on both sides, you can’t play the middle, you think I’ll be one or the other, you can’t be both. So a good God create by the process of evolution. No, like some people think that I’ve never heard that argument. No, the Bible says how it is. The Bible is true. There is a judgment day coming, the Bible says, in which God is going to judge the nations. Take your Bible and turn there to the book of Revelation, chapter 19.

Very quickly, Revelation and chapter 19. The Lord says, He’s coming back. One day, just think about it. The sky is going to split. And all of a sudden, here comes the Lord from heaven. And the Bible says, every eye is going to see Him. Not only will they see Him when He showed Him, they’ll see Him coming. Before He gets you, they’ll see Him coming. In Matthew 24. And when He comes, the Bible says in verse 15, and out of His mouth of chapter 19, verse And out of his mouth go with a sharp sword that with it he might smite the nations, the nations.

Why? Because the nations are turning against God. They believe they’ve got the answer for everything. And they’re going to have their little one world religion and their one world government. And the Bible says, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron and he treadeth the wine and the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God, wrath coming upon them. Take your Bible, look in chapter 11 of Revelation. The Lord is coming back. And it makes a statement in verse 15, and the 7th angel sounded, and there were great voices in heaven saying, the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever.

Now get this. this, the kingdoms of this world, the nations of the world are going to have one ruler, yes, one ruler one day, and it’s going to be the Lord, and he’s going to rule with a rod of iron. He will literally be here, and his saints are going to reign with him over the nations of the world. You’d think that what they do now on a day by day basis bothers me. I I have nothing to worry about.

I don’t care what they do, but I want to reach and educate as many people as I possibly can to understand and to know this and to realize it ain’t over yet. I know how it ends. All the kingdoms of the world will become his. And I’m going to roll with him. And the Bible says that in the last time, God shall have them in derision and that God will laugh at them. God’s going to laugh at the stupidness of the judgment of the people that rule the nations because they think they’re so wise, so smart.

God says your times coming. Look in verse 18 of chapter 11. And the nations were angry. I wonder if you could consider that a hate crime. When the nations get angry at God, because of the judgment that God pours out upon this world, when they have their earthquakes that he talks about and their hell stones of 120 pounds hitting upon this earth, when God says that he’s going to take and be the one that turns out turns out the light make the moon turn in the blood and everything in the oceans to die and one fourth of the world’s population destroyed at one time and people’s body consuming off their flesh.

When the Bible talks about it in their whole chuck and sum away out of their eyes, sockets and their flesh and their tongue chomp and sum away out of their mouth, when all that happens. And the Bible says the people rebel and get harder toward God and hate toward the wrath of the Lamb.” That’s okay. They get angry. In verse 18, “…and thy wrath is come and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that they should have give reward unto thy servants, the prophets unto the saints, and them that fear thy name small and great, and should have destroyed them which destroy the earth.”

This is awesome. This isn’t far away Because the nations of the world are chosen sides. Israel does want a peace treaty and the Jews want to rebuild a temple. But see those are things going to be built in the tribulation period. The tribulation period that’s seven years is called the wrath of God where God is going to pour out his wrath upon this earth. But right before all that happens the Bible says the rapture will take place. That’s where Christ will come in the year and He’ll take every one of us that no Christ is Savior and are living at that moment will be changed at a moment, the twinkling of an eye and caught up to meet the Lord in the air.

And so shall we ever be with the Lord to deliver us from the wrath to come. So God pours out his wrath upon individuals and his wrath upon nations, rafts upon governments. And he last days there’ll be the wrath upon the whole world. I know that I don’t have to worry about the wrath of God. Greatest peace of mind that a man can have. But if you have not accepted Christ as your Savior, that was God’s peace offering to you.

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I appreciate you all. Got a few things I want to share with you today Since there’s an election going on I Guess it’s just appropriate to see a few words And you know, I don’t tell you how to vote come close Give you a few ideas But I think it’s important for the times in which we live Take your Bible and turn to the book of Jose, you know like Jose. Can you see? Hose chapter 4, chapter 4, you’ve heard me make this statement over and over and over again, well if I was the president and a lot of time I’ve said I should have ran for president.

Well, I didn’t. But I do have some thoughts. But here in the book of Hose in chapter 4, it talks about God’s sinful people. And he tells them why they are so simple. Why are they having all the problems that they’re having? Well, you see in verse 6, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. They don’t know truth. All the problems that we’re now facing in America, When you talk about all the banking problem that’s going on over there in Europe and afraid that we’re gonna follow the same line as Greece and others I do believe this That we have those in our administration that are gonna do everything they can to bring down This country bring down the economy they want it destroyed so they can remake it the way they want.

Now in the book of Jeremiah where the Lord says I will root it up and then he’s going to rebuild but that’s the Lord and he’s doing that to the nation of Israel and they’re going to allow it to take place in the tribulation period where God will allow the He the nations to so humiliate and come close to annihilate in the nation of Israel that their only hope is the Lord and He has them then right where He wants them.

See, I don’t believe that God has America where He wants us yet. I believe He’s working on it. You see, God doesn’t want to exalt us. He has yet to humble us and get us to where we need to be. If you listen to those that are seeking the nomination, they’re always talking about how we’re going to fix things. We’re going to fix things. We are going to fix the employment. We’re going to fix the national debt. We’re going to fix the Medicare and Social Security and everybody getting hospitalization.

We’re going to fix all these problems. We’re going to fix our dependency upon foreign oil. We’re going to fix that and fix the banking problems and financial institutions and fix our trade with China and other countries. We’re going to fix all these problems. Everybody’s listening to who’s going to fix it. Who’s got the best fix it plan? Well, I Do believe that few will admit But as a nation we are a sin sick nation Our problem is sin Our problem is because we have lost our morality and Therefore, God will not bless us and all these other things are simply a symptom of another problem and That problem will be fixed when people get right with the Lord.

I’m not sure I see America ready to Submit themselves to the authority of God The move is on to strip every vestige of Christianity from our society. And that’s what the move is on attacking even religions and what the President of the administration does. Some people see this, some people haven’t got a clue what’s going on. And it is to pit one group against the other until we have infighting. About a year or so ago, maybe two years ago, I told you it won’t be long before we have civil disobedience, and it’ll turn violent.

Just wait and see. I believe it’s just part of a plan for somebody that doesn’t love our country or our Constitution, our Bill of Rights. And in so many words have said just that. They don’t like it. They don’t like the restraints that it puts upon them because they can’t get something done that they want to, want to say they got to destroy it and they’re going to try to teach the people to want a change and change the document altogether.

But anyway, those are just a few of my humble opinions, but I want you to look there and also in Hosea chapter three and look in verse three. And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days, Thou shalt not play the harlot, and Thou shalt not be for another man, so will I also be for thee. For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, without a prince, and without a sacrifice, without an image, without an ifoden, without a terrarium.

In other words, there’s not going to be a temple. There won’t be the sacrifices. There won’t be a king. In any verse five, afterwards shall the children of Israel return. Seek the Lord their God and David their king. Now they’ve gone back to the land, but they’re not seeking the Lord. They’re not seeking David their king. They’re back in unbelief. God hasn’t finished with him yet. And then he says, this will take place in the latter day. Now look in chapter four.

Chapter four is that here the word of the Lord, you children of Israel, for the Lord hath a, and you ought to underline this, were a controversy with the inhabitants of the land because there is no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of God in the land. So there’s five little things that are mentioned in these following verses. One is there is a spiritual decline, a spirituality climb, which is what we’re facing in America. When you’re not right spiritually between you and the Lord, then they will become a moral decline because then where is the restraints upon dignity upon the honor of another individual?

Because you see what’s going on today is a dishonoring of individuals. Men dishonor women by having sex outside of marriage. Women with women and men with men that’s all dishonoring to each other. Doesn’t honor God doesn’t honor each other. Most husbands that they do not honor their wives and the wives don’t honor their husbands. Kids don’t honor the parents, don’t honor the kids. You see, when you do not have a spiritual basis, a foundation, then you’re not going to have the restraints upon morality because then it’s do whatever you want to do.

So then you have to change laws that justify whatever it is you want to do. That’s why they want laws to see that you can have abortions, change the law. All these things is because people have lost their spiritual foundation. Then there’s nothing to hold them morally. And then the third thing is it becomes an operational decline. Nothing that we try to operate will work. It doesn’t make any difference. It’s Medicare or Social Security or the National Health. Everything causes a decline because everyone begins losing their freedom.

When you have Social Security, you will lose some freedoms. You have Medicaid, you’ll lose some more freedoms. And when you have the health care program and talking about, you’ll lose some more freedom. Everything is designed for government to grow and for you to lose more of your freedoms. And this is why our country was founded because our founding fathers saw Britain trying to do that to America when they try to tax the tea. That’s why they call these people today the tea party.

They’re rising up. They don’t like what’s being done. But some of them are not spiritually minded. They still don’t have the right morality. They’re not spiritually connected to the Lord. They want their freedom so they continue doing what they’re doing, but they’re just a few years from going down the same road that everybody else goes down. You see, you’ve got the Democrats and you’ve got the Republicans and then you’ve got the Tea Party, but they’re all moving in this direction unless you’re anchored not just to the Constitution.

You’re going to be anchored in the Bible. My people are destroyed for a lack of Bible knowledge, not just knowledge, spiritual knowledge. And this is why we have to have people today that learn the Word of God. And so there’s a decline. There is a humility decline. What it means is because people have exalted themselves and begin to think, I think our solution to our problem is in the White House. Our solution is not in the White House. It’s not in the House of Representatives.

It’s not in the Senate. They’re not our answer. All we’re going to do is just replace them with somebody else, and if they still don’t have the spiritual basis of why they do what they do, they simply will pass more laws. All we’ll do is just maybe prolong the agony. America is going down unless it’s going to be a spiritual revolution in this country. Not just a revolution, but they’re planning on a revolution. Remember this, it is the Democrats who think you ought to give up your guns.

The Republican says no we’re not. So they need to understand this. And I would love to be able to just look in Obama’s face and say, pass any law you want. Senate pass any law you want. House of Representatives pass any law you want. And it doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court says. We the people that have the guns said no. And there’s a time that there’s gonna be a line drawn in the sand and bloodshed is gonna flow in America.

Because see, it’s not gonna be based upon the ballot. It’ll be based upon the bullet. There’s still gonna be some people in this country going to say they’ve had it up there here and they’re going to take matters into their own hands. And say I would rather die fighting for my liberty than trusting a bunch of nuts that don’t understand what freedom is all about and why we should have freedom. I’m not interested in fighting for freedom so that people can just live the way they want to and take away the freedom of the people that’s died so that they can have freedom.

They dishonor every veteran that’s ever fought in any of our wars sitting in the White House or in Congress and voting to destroy this country by the things that they do and turn us into a country that our founding fathers fought not to become. And they didn’t want them to rule. So if we didn’t want them to rule us from the outside, why in the world would we want them to rule us from the inside? It was just my humble opinions, And the results of pride is total collapse.

And that’s where we’re headed, total collapse. If you know the Bible and believe the Bible at all, you know it’s only a matter of time. Because you know the tribulation period is coming. We’re not going to build a utopia up on this earth. It’s not going to happen. And you don’t have to worry about the Amaiian calendar. It’s not going to end into this year. I’ve already read the Bible, and it was written before the Mayan calendar. And it said, if the rapture took place today, we still got seven years of tribulation and another thousand years on top of that.

So they can stick it in their ear. I believe the book. And I don’t have to worry about all this other junk. But I want you to see this. In verse one he says, for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. Because there is no truth, nor knowledge of God, nor knowledge of God. The problem is they didn’t think about what God says. Is that where America is today? Nobody cares about what God says. Get him out of our schools, get him out of our universities, get him out of the Constitution, amount of our land don’t want no prayer and trying to minimize the impact of the church.

You know years ago, if people needed help along the way, they went to the church. Church looked after the old folks. That’s even in the scripture. And it didn’t matter what the problem was. People went to the church, but then people gave their money to the church. You see, you’re going to look for your help from wherever you give your money. give your money to the federal government, then you expect the federal government to take care of everything. Now, people don’t need the church.

But what if government didn’t do all of those things and let you keep your own money, and then you went to a church where people that know you and love you, and then when you have a hard time, people can stand behind you. But see, when people give their money to the government, they don’t give it to the church. Church can’t help people. They have stripped the church of its power because people don’t go. people don’t even know each other.

People don’t love each other, and yet we still have at times we have people that are always calling us, wanting us to help them. And the church don’t have the funds to do so why? Because everybody’s given it to the government. And the government can’t give you anything until it takes it from you first. And then it always gives you less back than what it took. Because they’ve got to be able to live off of all that work they’re doing, giving it to you.

where they would have been better off if you just kept it and eliminated that middle band. But this is, I know it’s too simple. It’s got to be more complex than this. But I can see things, I think clearly simple. But look what he says here. Look in verse 5, therefore shout out, fall in the day and the prophet also shall fall with the end the night and I will destroy thy mother. And then he says in verse 6, He says in verse six, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge and you ought to underline this word because.

What is that? Because thou hath rejected knowledge. I will also reject thee. That thou shalt be no more preached to me. Seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God. I also will forget thy children. You see, God expected the priests to do the teaching of the Word of God. They didn’t teach the people, so the people didn’t have the discipline to do what they should. And so because of that, they wouldn’t bring their money to the priest, to the storehouse.

So now they don’t have. So they become crooks, thieves. Now you had to pay for things, and they were wicked individuals and wicked leaders. They weren’t the pastors that God wanted them to be over their people. And He says here in verse 7, as they were increased, so they sinned against me. You ought to underline this next phrase. Therefore, while I changed their glory into what? Now America has been a glorious nation, a wonderful country, and we were great because we were good.

And when people do things because they want to do them, we help people because we want to help people. Well, God change the glory and to shame. Verse 8, they eat up the sin of my people, they feast on it. And they set their heart on their iniquity. There shall be like people, like priests. Monkey see, monkey do. Now we’ll punish them for their ways and reward them their doings. they shall eat and not have enough, they shall commit boredom and shall not increase because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.”

See, when you see what he’s saying here, when you’re not right with the Lord spiritually, boredom comes which is your morality. And when the morality goes, then you don’t teach the truth to the generation that’s coming up. And so everybody rebels and then total collapse eventually. See there in verse 11, Hordam and wine and new wine take away the heart. And buddy, this is descriptive. See, that’s why you read the Old Testament to find out what God says and how God dealt with the situation.

He had also made a promise to Israel. He says, you show, if you listen to me, you’ll be the head and not the tale. See the dog is supposed to wag the tale. The tale is not supposed to wag the dog. And what he says is, when you rebel against me, he said, I’ll put a yoke of iron upon your neck until it destroys you. He says, and you will be the tail because somebody else is going to pull the strings.

And America is going to get to the place where we are so indebted to others outside of our country, they’ll be able to pull the strings that says what we can and cannot do. We’re not far from that now. They’re borrowing billions from a place like China. Can you believe this? And the borrower is servant to the lender. We’re losing an awful lot. But anyway, I told you that I would run for president. So when I get through, I want you to nominate me.

My fellow Americans. I’ve never heard that before. My fellow Americans. Well, that sounded like Nixon, Richard Nixon. Let me be perfectly clear. Some of y’all have a memory and can remember a few things. Now, I want to try to get through this if y’all will stop all this now. I started it all. My fellow Americans as of today, I will lead this nation to implement the following principles, policies and practices. At home and abroad, this nation will follow a new foreign policy that will solve the problem of terrorism.

We will return to our roots and follow the wise advice of our Founding Fathers. We will no longer get entangled in foreign alliances. We will no longer meddle in the affairs of other nations nor consider ourselves the policeman of the world. We will always consider first our national interest. We will not presume that we know best for all countries. What may be best for us may not be the best for them. You see, you don’t want other countries in fight dying so that they can have democracies without the foundation that produces a Republican form of government.

A Republican form of government is only good for a Christian people. You understand what I’m saying? Our Founding Fathers knew this. So just because you have a democracy, majority rules, that’s the worst form of government that they have because it leads into socialism and communism and all the other isms and spasms. Since America has been attacked by Muslim fanatics, we have aggressively gone after those responsible. However, we will no longer try to topple governments and set up democracies. Of course, we will always encourage liberty everywhere.

We will not carpet bomb cities filled with innocent civilians. We do not believe total war is morally right or militarily justified. However, be assured that those culpable individuals will be punished at a deterrent than others. Of course, if you are attacked by a nation, that’s a wipe mouth. Anyway, Americans don’t hate Muslims or anyone else since it is wrong and unproductive to hate. However, we will no longer plead with Muslims at home and abroad to love us. We will no longer express guilt and self-loathing.

Federal officials will no longer try to prove that Americans are not racist. It is up to the Muslims to prove they are not terrorist. I have worded the Department of Homeland Security that no traveler will be mistreated. However, since all the attacks against us have been young Muslim men, we will do the reasonable thing in profile air travelers. The harassment of little old ladies, very young people and handicapped persons will no longer be our practice. We will still be to terrorists with special attention to those of Middle Eastern appearances.

You mean you believe in racial profiling? You got that right? Yes, I do. If nobody was doing this but little Chinese, Well, here comes some down the line and so you pull out some old grandmother and the little Chinese goes, wait a minute, something’s wrong with this reasoning and they want to be politically correct. I don’t. Then anyway, as we’re moving right along. Moreover, I have authorized the use of troops on our southern border to secure that border and arrest fingerprint and photograph each illegal alien before he or she is deposited forth with back to Mexico.

When he second offenders will be imprisoned and put to work on a Texas or an Arizona work or chain gain. You say you don’t believe in putting people on a chain gain. My daddy worked on a chain gain in America. Did he deserve it? Yes. I have the papers for my daddy attempted murder several times. I watched him one time. He was trying to kill a couple guys. He always had these overalls and he carried a big ol’ switch blade.

And you taught him in the west when they could fast draw. He was just that fast with a knife. And he’d hit that thing and jump out there and he’d hit that little button, that blade jump out there like that. But anyways, furthermore, any American firm that knowingly hires a neo-legal alien will be heavily fined following the second offense that business license will be revoked. Furthermore, as of today, we have shut the welfare window. No more foreign age to any nation, you realize you’re given a couple billion dollars a year to Egypt.

And Obama wants to hurry up and give it to him. There’s something wrong with this. Something wrong with this. You remember when Carter became the president and Iran took some of our people hostage and they didn’t get free until Ronald Reagan became president? And the reason is because they knew Carter wouldn’t do anything and Reagan would. The only reason Egypt is doing what they’re doing right now is because they know that Obama won’t do one cotton picking thing. Now he may do something a little bit later because he heard me.

But if we had a president, they wouldn’t dare touch an American because they knew what would happen. It’s because they see us as weak and the reason is we are. We need a spinal transplant. America has lost its backbone. Yeah, we have some. We may decide in the future that it is in our best interest to help some nations, but it will be temporary and as unusual as snow in July or freezing weather in Tampa. We will also start bringing our troops home from all over the world.

They will be sent to foreign nations only in the event of a declared war by Congress, not by the President. Congress is the only one who has the authority to declare war. Anyway, I just thought that out there. This is not isolationism, but is an America first policy. Any other policy is insane. Japan, Germany, the other 20 nations where our troops are now stationed should learn to protect themselves. See, we’re on the hook for protecting all these nations and sometimes they prosper and America is paying for their defense.

Now, I do believe it’s It’s good to have bases all over the place, a few bases, but not 120 bases. As to the Middle East, we don’t know what is best. Israel has been a long time friend of the United States. We will support their right to exist within secure borders and support their right to defend themselves against those who want to drive them into the sea. We will not support a Palestinian state carved out of Israel, but would support a separate state if it is carved out of the surrounding Muslim dominated nations.

They got more room. It’s about 50 Arab nations and they don’t have room for those people there in Palestine. Isn’t that a shame? As to our reliance on Middle East oil, we have already started drilling in Alaska because if I was President, that’s what I’m doing. The Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of California and will immediately expand the mining of our vast coal supplies. We will try to be sensitive to the environment. However, I believe that people are more precious than plants or bugs or snakes or fish or spotted owls.

Our drilling equipment, you know, I just might do away with the EPA too. Yeah, I might just do away with it. Our drilling equipment may cause a caribou here and there to abort her young or a bear may may send its rear end on the pipeline, but we will live with those tragedies. American oil will flow. Moreover, of course, we will still buy oil from South America and even Middle Eastern nation. However, we will not buy oil from states that support terrorists.

They can pour their excess oil over their pancakes each morning. Or drink it. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. Part two of this teaching will conclude with tomorrow’s broadcast. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach by the line and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll-free 1-800-576-3771.

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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s concluding message of this teaching will be a blessing to you and your family. See there, verse 11, courtim and wine and new wine take away the heart. And buddy, this is descriptive. See, that’s why you read the Old Testament to find out what God says and how God dealt with the situation. He had also made a promise to Israel. He says, you show, if you listen to me, you’ll be the head and not the tale.

See the dog is supposed to wag the tale. The tale is not supposed to wag the dog. And what he says is, when you rebel against me, he said, I’ll put a yoke of iron upon your neck until it destroys you. He says, and you will be the tail because somebody else is going to pull the strings. And America is going to get to the place where we are so indebted to others outside of our country, they’ll be able to pull the strings that says what we can and cannot do.

We’re not far from that now. We’re borrowing billions from a place like China. Do you believe this? And the borrower is servant to the lender. We’re losing an awful lot. But anyway, I told you that I would run for president. So when I get through, I want you to nominate me. My fellow Americans. You’ve ever heard that before? My fellow Americans? Well, that sounded like Nixon, Richard Nixon. Let me be perfectly clear.

Some of y’all have a memory and can remember a few things. Now I want to try to get through this if y’all will stop all this now. I started it all. My fellow Americans as of today, I will lead this nation to implement the following principles, policies and practices. At home and abroad, this nation will follow a new foreign policy that will solve the problem of terrorism. We will return to our roots and follow the wise advice of our founding fathers.

We will no longer get entangled in foreign alliances. We will no longer meddle in the affairs of other nations, nor consider ourselves the policemen of the world. We will always consider first our national interest. We will not presume that we know best for all countries. What may be best for us may not be the best for them. See, you don’t want other countries in fight dying so that they can have democracies without the foundation that produces a Republican form of government.

A Republican form of government is only good for a Christian people. You understand what I’m saying? Our founding fathers knew this. So just because you have a democracy, majority rules, that’s the worst form of government that that they have because it leads into socialism and communism and all the other isms and spasms. Since America has been attacked by Muslim fanatics, we have aggressively gone after those responsible. However, we will no longer try to topple governments and set up democracies.

Of course, we will always encourage liberty everywhere. We will not carpet bomb cities filled with innocent civilians. We do not believe total war is morally right or militarily justified. However, be assured that those culpable individuals will be punished at a deterrent than others. Of course, if you are attacked by a nation, that’s a wipe-mout. Anywhere. Americans don’t hate Muslims or anyone else since it is wrong and unproductive to hate. However, we will no longer plead with Muslims at home and abroad to love us.

We will no longer express guilt and self-loathing. Federal officials will no longer try to prove that Americans are not racist. It is up to the Muslims to prove they are not terrorist. I have worded the Department of Homeland Security. That no traveler will be mistreated. However, since all the attacks against us have been young Muslim men, we will do the reasonable thing in profile air travelers. The harassment of little old ladies, very young people and handicapped persons will no longer be our practice.

We will still be alert to terrorists with special attention to those of Middle Eastern appearances. You mean you believe in racial profiling? You got that right. Right? Yes, I do. If nobody was doing this, but little Chinese, well, here comes some down the line. And so you pull out some old grandmother and the little Chinese goes, wait a minute, something’s wrong with this reasoning. And they want to be politically correct. I don’t. But anyway, as we’re moving right along.

Moreover, I have authorized the use of troops on our southern border to secure that border and arrest fingerprint and photograph each illegal alien before he or she is deposited forth with back to Mexico. Any second offenders will be imprisoned and put to work on a Texas or an Arizona work or chain gain. You say, you don’t believe in putting people on a chain gain. My daddy worked on a chain gain in America. Did he deserve it? Yes. I have the papers for my daddy, attempted murder several times.

I watched him one time. He was trying to kill a couple guys. He always had these overalls and he carried a big old switch blade. And buddy, you talked about in the West when they could fast draw. He was just that fast with a knife and he had hit that thing and jumped out there and he had hit that little button that blade jump out there like that. But anyways, furthermore, any American firm that knowingly hires a neo-legal alien will be heavily fined following the second offense that business license will be revoked.

Furthermore, as of today, we have shut the welfare window. No more foreign age to any nation. You realize we’re given a couple billion dollars a year to Egypt. And Obama wants to hurry up and give it to him. There’s something wrong with this. Something wrong with this. You remember when Carter became the president and I ran took some of our people hostage and they didn’t get free until Ronald Reagan became president. And the reason is because they knew Carter wouldn’t do anything.

And Reagan would. The only reason Egypt is doing what they’re doing right now is because they know that Obama won’t do one cotton-picking thing. He may do something a little bit later because he heard me. But if we had a president, they wouldn’t dare touch an American because they knew what would happen. It’s because they see us as weak and the reason is we are. We need a spinal transplant. America has lost its backbone. Anyway, we may decide in the future that it is in our best interest to help some nations, but it will be temporary and as unusual as snow in July or freezing weather in Tampa.

We will also start bringing our troops home from all over the world. They will be sent to foreign nations only in the event of a declared war by Congress, not by the President. Congress is the only one who has the authority to declare war. Anyway, I just thought that out there. This is not isolationism, but is an America first policy. Any other policy is insane. Japan, Germany, the other 20 nations where our troops are now stationed should learn to protect themselves.

See, we’re on the hook for protecting all these nations. And sometimes they prosper and America is paying for their defense. Now, I do believe it’s good to have bases all over the place, a few bases, not 120 basis. As to the Middle East, we don’t know what is best. Israel has been a longtime friend of the United States. We will support their right to exist within secure borders and support their right to defend themselves against those who want to drive them into the sea.

We will not support a Palestinian state carved out of Israel, but would support a separate state if it is carved out of the surrounding Muslim dominated nations. They got more room. It’s about 50 Arab nations and they don’t have room for those people there in Palestine. Isn’t that a shame? As to our reliance on Middle East oil, we have already started drilling in Alaska because the Foughs Presidents went down. The Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of California and will immediately expand the mining of our vast coal supply.

We will try to be sensitive to the environment. However, I believe that people are more precious than plants or bugs or nicks or fish or spotted owls. Our drilling equipment, you know, I just might do away with the EPA too. Yeah, I might just do away with him. Our drilling equipment may cause a caribou here and there to abort her young or a bear may sense its rear end on a pipeline, but we will live with those tragedies. American oil will flow.

Moreover, of course, we will still buy oil from South America and even Middle Eastern nation. However, we will not buy oil from states that support terrorists. They can pour their excess oil over their pancakes each morning. or drink it. This government will no longer pretend that terrorist leaders, kings, and dictators, are gracious gentlemen, nor will American officials shake their hands while smiling like idiots. We will encourage American entrepreneurs by tax incentive and other measures to pursue the development of alternative fuels.

Oh, by the way, I’m also for abolishing the 16th Amendment. in case you didn’t know that. If the 16th Amendment would have be applied the way it should be, it would be okay. When it talks about the federal government shall have right to tax income. Income, according to a proper definition, is the profit from income, or I I should say, principle that has been invested, not from wages. I do not believe that wages are taxable. And I don’t believe that was in the Constitution.

There’s a thing about direct law and indirect taxes that talks in the Constitution about this. And when it came in about 1913 and so forth, it was ruled on Constitution in 1894. But because people don’t understand it, they don’t stand for it. And of course, we could say, well, they don’t have the power to, yes, they have the power. They don’t have the right. So you Congress today, they don’t have the right to do the things they’re doing, but they do have the power.

And that’s what’s wrong. Because they’re not honoring the Constitution. They don’t have the right to do it, but they have the power to do it. And when you have the power to do it, anything the government can do for you, they can do to you so they can take everything that you have. There’s great consequences, and you may not be willing think that battle most people learn. But anyway, just like for example a church, a church, 98% of probably of all churches in America are all incorporated.

And when you incorporate, you move yourself from just a church under Christ and to a church that’s under the laws of the state here of Florida. So there’s consequences and there’s control that can come and there’s demands that they can make. And so little by little churches can lose their freedom. And government can begin to tell the church what they can and cannot do why because you’re incorporated. And even if you’re a nonprofit corporation, you’re a child of a bigger corporation like, see, there’s state.

The state is incorporated. And all the businesses that people have, most everybody when they start a business, first thing you do is get incorporated. The reason to get incorporates because it keeps you personally, supposedly, from being sued. So there’s protection for you. There’s the possibility of longevity. You can, the perpetuity, you can keep going. So there’s advantages, but there’s also disadvantages. Because see, as soon as you incorporate, now the state allows you and you go in the business with the state.

So now you get to share some of your profit with the state so they get the right of a return because of your investment, your work. So eliminate all of your work, the expenses, and whatever’s left over, they want a part of the profits. So then the state has now the right to regulate all corporations. Majority of all people in America now work for what? Corporations. And they all are required to take out with holdings and to pay. And so it’s one big gigantic trap and you can’t get out of it.

Now you can deny and try to hide and things like that and then people do that. And you can do that and get away for a while. But then you’re always living in fear coming after me, that coming after me, that coming after me. So now you live in fear. So is there a way out of all of this? Yeah, there’s a way out of all of this called the Rapture. So I do look forward to the Rapture coming.

But anyway, individual households and businesses can be assured that taxes will be cut not raised while we pay off our national debt by eliminating the energy department, Commerce Department, Education Department, and hundreds of unnecessary and overlapping commissions that harass and limit private enterprise. You remember when never Dobb Ronald Reagan became president he said this, I am going to eliminate HEW health education and welfare. But he couldn’t get the Congress to go along with it. But that was his goal.

And then he called it couldn’t eliminate it. You got to feed it. And it’s a monster. And it grows. It’s hungry. So now Congress has to spend all the time trying to feed these little monsters. Years ago, they had great big debates about starting these things like Social Security. And how small it was going to be. And it’s only for a few people to help them. Alright, you started a pyramid scheme. It’s okay when you get old enough and you get to get your social security.

But eventually it becomes top heavy because after a while you’ve got more people taking out of it than it’s putting into it. And the money that has already been put into it has already been taken out of it. It’s on the verge of collapse. But nobody would want the government to stop. And you know what’s happening like over in Greece and why they’re having riots in the street? It’s because the government promised them and now they want the government to pay up and the government don’t have any money.

What’s gonna happen in America when all these senior citizens and people can’t get their money and there is no Medicare and there is no Social Security, there is no healthcare because it’s all collapsed and all your savings are gone. You don’t own your homes. It’s going to be a dark day in America. What would people do when they really get hungry? You see, the spiritual problem in America is because, see, when you don’t stay close to the Lord and do things God’s way, you have a natural built-in, all sinful nature that’s filled with greed.

And there’s people who are finding every way possible to rip off somebody. to get something and it’s happening in Washington, the insider trading stuff, the very ones that passed the laws, got inside information and they know what to do, land to buy, decisions to make and what funds, all these things because see, they make the law. And isn’t it a shame that lawyers make the laws that you can’t understand so that you have to hire a lawyer to understand what the lawyer put in the books.

It’s self-perpetuating. They make more money. I think that not one lawyer ought to be able to be elected to office. No lawyers, because it’s a conflict of interest. about it. It’s laws and they word them in such a way that they become a little traps and that’s why well go ahead and pass this bill and then you can find out what’s in it afterwards. That dog won’t, huh? Let me just mention this to you before we quit here. You have some difficult days ahead that will require an adjustment by us all.

Nevertheless we see a bright future after a few years of sacrifice. This administration will keep you informed since you are the boss. You fund our world travels and generous salaries as you do for all federal employees. This administration takes our job seriously. Therefore, we promise that any further bills that come to the Oval Office, and of course I’m the president, must meet five criterias to qualify for passage. It must be constitutional. It must be necessary. We must be able to afford the proposed law, it must not expand government and limit individual liberty.

The last criteria is that it must not undermine the family, decency, and general morality. Now don’t that sound reasonable, but you know that won’t pass because that would restrain government and what they want to do. And people can understand that the Constitution, our Bill of Rights that we have, are the chains that our founding fathers put upon Congress saying this is what you can’t do. There’s a limitation of power and the things that they’re doing, they have no authority to do.

And And what I haven’t yet understood is where is the rebellion of the people that regardless of what they say, regardless of what they pass, the people said, no, and we will not do it. To be able to look Congress in the face, pass all the laws you want to, we said no, and mean no because there’s consequences to define this powerful government. If you think that these candidates that are running and you see how they can go back and dig up dirt.

You sneezed when you were two years old. They got it. And it doesn’t matter. And they will take and destroy you, or you’ll find yourself in a prison someplace. I have friends, people that I know that have been placed in prison because of their defiance of the federal government on certain issues. And they paid a price. I was with Dr. Greg Dixon, and in the Annapolis up there when they took his church away from him. And it wasn’t because they did anything wrong, because I was doing the same thing he was doing.

And so it was a lot of other churches. We had Christian schools. They had a Christian school. We told our people, you’re responsible for your own taxes, but the church does not become a tax collecting agency for the federal government. So they came in on their church and took it, sold it, took their church away from them. And it was a huge church about number seven in America in size. And I’ve been with Dr. Dixon a lot of times, but that happened right here in America.

I was up there in, placed in Nebraska, wherever at Sullivan had a Christian school. And he had to go to the judge because they were closing down their school. fathers were placed in jail. Told they had their kids in a Christian school, in a Baptist church. And they stood there and argued that this government has no right. He says, what is the name of your church? He says, faith Baptist church, what’s the rest of it? He says, comma, ink.

He says, you’re a corporation. You’re a corporation. You follow in the laws of the state. we can and we will. He said, well, these children don’t belong to you. They belong to the parent. He says, thank again. I mean, it’s just in courtroom. It’s all document. He says, do you have a marriage license? He says, yes, the state gave you permission to get married. Those children belong to the state. The kids, that’s why it’s called a human resource. Children belong to the state and you thought they were yours.

And that’s why they can tell you in sooner or later, that all these things, they’re going to tighten these nooses on the churches, on the families, on the children. They’ve got all the decisions already made. They’re just waiting for the right time to impose it when they think they can get away with it. And they keep testing to see what can they do and see what the outrage will be. And what will they do because of this or that and the other?

There’s a plan on. I don’t believe in all the, every time something happens there’s a, you know, a sinister theory behind things, but I do believe the devil is alive and the devil is working. And I believe that if you love the Lord, we should put the Lord first and do what God wants us to do regardless of the consequences. But there is a possibility that down the road we could have severe consequences. me give you my last statement.

Don’t doubt there are need jerking all across America. Left ones of course. And those people can cast their vote for new leadership and these policies in the next election. Till then learn to live with it, I am your President and will do as I have promised and may the God of the Bible bless America. Finally, during this Christmas season when we honor the birth of Jesus Christ who died to provide a way of salvation for centers. May I wish the best for you and your family, good night to everyone and so forth.

A friend of mine that I’ve been in a lot of meetings with named Don Boyes, he wrote that and sent that to me. I know I read that a lot of good points on that. Of course, I changed a little bit on it. But anyway, hope you have a wonderful election this year and honor of the Lord. But you still have a responsibility prolong our freedom as long as we can. Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness or a property. We should vote for the person that will preserve our life or our liberty or our pursuit or our property, the longest.

We all know we’re going to die one of these days, but we’re not dead yet. I’m so a citizen of this country. And I got responsibilities and I think that I oughta do the best I can with my decision. So glad to have you here. I realize you may never come again. But I love you. I love America. I love the Lord. I love his word, but whether we ever change anything in this nation, I want you to know how to go to heaven.

So let me tell you the best news in the world. Letting this hand represent you and me, the wallet represents sin. We all have sin on us. God says that he loves us. Now he hates our sin, but he loves us. But because we’ve all sinned, we have to pay for it. And that payment is eternal separation from God in hell. God, he doesn’t want us to go to hell. He wants us to go to heaven. And to go to heaven, you have to be perfect.

His righteousness has got, none of us are perfect. None of us are good enough. We’re all sinners. We’ve all come short of God’s perfection. But God says, you can’t earn eternal life. You can’t work your way to heaven. So how you live doesn’t determine where you go, because you’ll never live good enough to go to heaven. That’s why you need a savior. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord God in the flesh. He came into the world because he loves us, but he hates what we do wrong.

And he says, our sin separates us from the Lord. So Jesus Christ, who had no sin didn’t have to die. But because he loved us, he took our sins, paid for them on the cross, came back from the dead. God said that if we would believe that he did it for us, he would put the payment he made to our account and we get to go to heaven on what he did. No, we don’t deserve that, we didn’t earn it.

He says, by grace are you saved through faith that not of yourself, it is the gift of God. It’s not a works list any man should boast. So salvation, it’s free. You don’t have to stop something or join anything. All you have to do is trust Christ as your Savior. So right where you’re sitting, right now, the quietness of your mind, the Lord knows who you are, knows what you’ve done, knows what you’re gonna do. Still loves you. And He said He would give you as a free gift eternal life if you simply trusted Him.

Will you trust Jesus Christ right now as your Savior? Would you trust Him to take you to heaven when you die? God said if you believed that He did it for you, He would save you right now. Let’s pray, shall we? If what I said this morning made sense to you about how to have eternal life and go to heaven, would you trust Him right now? I want you to trust the Lord. I really do. I want you to go to heaven when you die.

But right where you’re sitting, So yet, it makes sense to me and I want to be certain. Is there anyone at all before we close? Our Father, we thank You so much for all that You’ve done for us, for the free gift of eternal life. And I pray Lord, Your blessings upon each person here and each family. We ask Your blessings upon our country, help us to do right. In Christ’s name we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

Ralph Arnold. We pray that you are blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach by the line and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free, 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. To listen to today’s message again or to obtain a free download of any of our Bible line programs, just go to our homepage at BibleLineMinistries.org and click on the Radio Broadcast link.

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Caught up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon, and just keep looking up.

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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, and that today’s first part of this two-part message will be a blessing to you and your family. You know, sometimes you say things that don’t mean. Sometimes you mean things you don’t say. And sometimes you say things you wish you hadn’t said. And sometimes you say things and it’s taking the wrong way. You ever had to have them? Well, somebody always trying to help me out in the ministry.

And I appreciate them. You know, they send me little tidbits of this and little tidbits of that, you know. Anyway, I hope y’all are having a wonderful year so far. And have y’all heard anything about it? the elections or anything like that. So debates or, you know, somebody running for president and all that kind of stuff. Anybody hear anything like that? We do have some serious elections coming up in Florida is a close state. I mean, it is very, very important.

But anyway, let me read something to you. You know, these are some statements because it’s similar to the book of Proverbs. Now we’re not gonna go to Proverbs. We got a few other places we’re gonna run to. But whenever you study Proverbs, Pro and Verba means more than meets the eye, you see one thing and it says that, but there’s another meeting sometimes in there that sometimes we don’t always see. A statement where there’s a will, you know, you say, where there’s a will, there’s a way.

Well some people say, where there’s a will, there’s a relative. Or where there’s a will, I want to be in it. that can be good and that can be bad. Another statement, do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience. Think about it. Some people, just like if they run for office, they know how to play down and dirty. One time was talking to my son and he says, Daddy, he says, I know all about that street life out there.

He says, I know how to live on the streets. I know how to, because it’s like it’s another language, it’s another way of living. There’s people who know how to do that. So there’s another part of the world. I don’t know anything about. So you have to watch that people don’t pull you down into where they are and then beat you with experience. So you’ve got to be smart, be wiser. The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it’s still on my list.

But it’s the last thing. Dan likes that one. Then hearing the lights that. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. It’s also the reason why you have two ears in only one mouth. So you should listen twice as much as you speak. Good point. If I agreed with you, both of us would be wrong. I love it whenever you can say a lot in a few words. It’s called when I used to speak in ranch I used to teach the college kids how to tell jokes.

Brevity is the soul of a joke. The shorter you can make it. I don’t like it when somebody’s gonna tell me a joke and it goes on and on and on. I said get to the punchline. I ain’t got all day. Tell me the story. You got to tell it. But they go on and on and they can take a joke that takes about five seconds to tell and they can work it into about two or three minutes. We never really grow up.

We only learn how to act in public. War does not not determine who is right, only who is left. There’s a little bit of something. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in the fruit salad. You may be considered, well, I know a lot about the Bible, but if you don’t know how to apply it and where to put it, then you’re not very wise. Wisdom is the application of knowledge. So it’s not just a matter of learning the Bible is the application of the Bible.

So to say, well, I’ve been to the Bible 10 times. times. Oh, I’ve been going to church for 30 years. Have you ever noticed there’s some Christians who’ve never applied it, never grown up yet? Well, we’ll move right along. Evening news is where they begin with good evening and then proceed to tell you why it isn’t. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research. A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops.

My desk is a workstation. I’m not gonna explain that. I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just wanted to paycheck. Isn’t it what it’s all about really? You just want to be happy making your money. You just want to make your money your way. And that’s how you determine your career. Anyway, whenever I fill out an application in the part that says in case of emergency, notify I always put doctor. I didn’t say it was your fault.

I said I was blaming you. Now there is a difference. I’m not sure what it is, but I’m sure it’s there somewhere. Don’t you enjoy a little brevity, a little brevity. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman. How many of you say this morning I have a clear conscience? Careful. I also noticed nobody quickly raised their hand. You’re in fear this morning. A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.

I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way, so I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness. Have you ever thought about, I’m just gonna do what I want to do, and then I’ll just ask God to forgive me and everything will be cool. Don’t go that way. This preacher does not approve of that. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute if you want to guy died twice. Did y’all get that?

Good. Money cannot buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with. I used to be indecisive. Now I’m not so sure. You ever hear somebody say, you can’t be sure about anything. Are you sure about that? You’re never too old to learn something stupid. You would think the older we lived, the longer we lived, we’d be smart enough not to do such stupid things all the time, to be sure of hitting the target. Shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.

Like the guy that’s you know he’s 70 years old and he’s working at Burger King. This is where I’ve always wanted to be. Because this is where I am, this must be what I hit. This must be what my goal was. Some people don’t have clear guidance for their life so anything will do. When you don’t know where you go in any road will do and it’s better to aim at something and miss to name it nothing and hit it.

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian anymore than standing in a garage. It makes you a car. Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even when you wish they were. When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember the fire department usually used water. A word of wisdom. The early bird may get the worm. But the second mouse gets the cheese. Now you’ve had your warm-up session.

Take your Bible and turn me to the book of Matthew, chapter five. I just wanna mention a few things to you that I hope will be a blessing to you. Some things you already know, I mean, what can I teach you people that you don’t know? Y’all know everything. But Matthew in chapter five, You know that the Lord is going to reward you when you get to heaven. We all teach that. We know that, we understand that, we believe that.

But sometimes in the process of time, we kind of lose sight that before glory is suffering, before praise is suffering, before Your honor is suffering. So which comes first? Suffering, then glory. When Christ came into the world, what did He do first? He suffered, and the next time, glory. So keep the thought in mind. First we have to labor and suffer in this world for His Kingdom, and then later God is going to reward. bless is going to give you praise, honor, and glory.

So here in Matthew and chapter 5, look at their in verse 10, blessed are they which are persecuted. Blessed are they which are persecuted. I don’t mind being persecuted. I just don’t want the person who did it to me to get away with it. Right? We want revenge. We want to get even. And so that’s where you could forfeit the rewards that you could have got by enduring the persecution. Now you may not enjoy the persecution, but we are told in his word to endure it.

But he says, blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness, say for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye when man shall revile you or mock you, make fun of you, rib you. You know, I’ve thought about running for president, But after watching all these debates, I think I’ll pass. You realize what they have to go through, the scrutiny? They’re mean. They’re ugly. And it makes you think twice, don’t they? Sometimes you wonder, well, what is the truth?

And they cast questions and doubts on just about anybody. They don’t have to prove anything. All they got to do is just say it. Now you prove it didn’t happen. But it says here in verse 11, Blessed are ye when men shall revow you and persecute you shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my say in other words because you’re serving the Lord and you’re seeking to do what’s right and You are persecuted for it. He says and you did it for my sake.

He said I got something for you In verse 12 you ought to underline this word see that word rejoice rejoice Now, when should you start rejoicing when we get to heaven and get all those rewards? I believe that you and I are supposed to rejoice when? Now, because you know what’s coming down the road. And see, it doesn’t matter what people say and do. You can rejoice now and you know that’s where you can have a lot of happiness in life.

Because you know that what just happened maybe wasn’t good. And your happiness isn’t dependent upon happenings, but you know that I’m going to get rewarded for this if I handle this correctly. If I have the right attitude, you realize that most people don’t have a good attitude, they have a prideful attitude, they have a me-only attitude. Whenever what kids get in line when they’re going to school, I don’t know why it is. Somebody always thinks they have to be in front of the line.

I don’t mind if they get behind me. I just got a bad case of not me, I just, you know, me only. Man, I guess that’s the way it is. Have you ever noticed when we have the food in the auditorium sometimes? I have no clue how it is that I always work out to be in the front of the line sometimes. I didn’t plan it that way. Somebody has to have prayer. Now, Larry, that busted out too. He shouldn’t have done that.

You know you’ve been on the internet and it’s going all over the world. His name is Larry. But rejoice, rejoice and get this. Look at the last part of that verse. Rejoice and be exceeding glad for great is your reward where? In heaven. So that means that in order for me to get rewarded for that persecution or those things that people say against me, somebody has to be watching. Somebody has to be keeping the books. Did you realize that your heavenly Father watches everything?

Don’t you think that he knows how you’re being treated and that you can still have a good attitude? It doesn’t seem like whatever happens because you know that when I get to heaven, God’s going to reward me for whatever I’ve gone through and persecution or whatever it might be. And so here it makes the statement for so persecuted day, the prophets which were before you. Now, you just read about that in the book of Acts on Wednesday night. How that you have prosecuted all the prophets before you.

So it’s a good verse to always remember. Remember he talks about seeing your good work. When he talks about you being salted the earth and the light of the world, It’s referring to lost people or the world seeing your works. See what he says there in verse 16. Let your light so shine before men. Now this light to shine before men is the response of what people do to you. It’s how you’re handling it that causes them to see something better, something different.

If you’re going to live like a lost man, I don’t think you’re going to be honored. But he says, let your light so shine before meant that they may see your good works. You see, what they were doing was not good, but your response is good or supposed to be good. And then he says, and glorify your Father, which is in heaven. Always be willing to give credit and honor to the Lord What God’s done for you, but God is pleased when you suffer and you praise him for it.

It’s because you know God’s going to reward you and it can help your attitude while you hear. Otherwise you’ll just be a Christian with a bad natitude and that’s not what the Lord wants. Looking first Peter in chapter one first Peter chapter one This is a familiar verse But it’s good to look at renew your You knew your mind one more time. First Peter chapter 1, as you know, we’ve talked about in verse 4, that when you’re saved, you’re saved from something to something.

You’re saved from hell to in verse 4, to an inheritance and sin corruptible and undefiled that faith, if not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith and the salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time. So you were saved by grace and your kept saved by grace because you put your faith in what Christ did for you. So you rejoicing that. You’re glad you know you have eternal life. And despite everything else that happens, you know you’re going to heaven.

But now look what he says in verse 6. Wherein ye greatly rejoice. You can rejoice about that, your salvation. What we just read in the book of Matthew chapter 5 about greatly rejoicing and be exceeding glad because of your life. This period of time God’s got us to live. You know you’ll influence more people with a good attitude than you will with a bad attitude, with a smile on your face more than a frown on your face. You get what he says in verse 6.

We’re in you greatly rejoice though now for a season. See this little period of time that we have to go through, this is just a little period of time. And we’re supposed to be found faithful. And it has rejoiced there now for a season. If need be, ye are in heaviness. If need, you ought to take that word need and underline it. Did you know thateanor various times in your life that God knows what you need? Did you know that he knows that you learn a lesson?

God knows when you need a trial or a testing. Did you know that? Did you know that God could be the one that’s actually disciplining you, disciplining you? There’s a lot of people I like to disciple. And when they don’t do this, I try to follow up and help. You’re always doing that. Did you know that God, your heavenly Father, is doing the same? He knows more about what you need than you know. And so sometimes he knows you need a rebuke, you need a testing, you need to be humbled, you are filled with pride or jealousy or envy or bitter.

God knows. And did you know that God can work things out, that where time he gets through with you, he can so humble you and you say, Lord, I’m so sorry I should have done that. God knows what he’s doing. You lift yourself up in And in pride and God will put you down. You humble yourself and God will exalt you. And if you don’t get exalted like you think you should, does God know that? Can you just go ahead and be faithful and have a right kind of addict only because you know God is going to take care of it.

And I get to heaven, God’s going to reward me. You win in the long run. You win. But look what he says. He says here in this verse, We are in heaviness through manifold temptation. In other words, there’s things that weigh you down. There’s always problems. Every one of us has assets and liabilities. All of us do. And God is always working in our lives. It doesn’t stop. Just because next month I’ll be 70 doesn’t mean that that’s the end of it.

I finally reached my peak and everything’s wonderful from then on. I hope so. I don’t think so though. And then in verse seven, the trial of your faith. Been much more precious than of gold, which perishes though it be tried with fire might be found on the praise, honor, and glory win at the appearing of Jesus Christ. So the time is coming, just always look for that and believe that because it will happen. First Peter chapter four, just look at it very quickly.

First Peter chapter four. And you’ll notice there’s a few verses here really, really sharp. 1 Peter 4, look in verse 12, where it says, Beloved, thank it not strange concerning the, and you ought to underline these two words in your Bible, fiery trial, which is to try you. You see what’s coming this year? You really want to know. This year, there’s going to be some fiery trials to try you. Did you know God can try your faith with success or with failure?

With help and without help? You see, the man who I was reading in the paper this morning, how, is talking about some of these presidential poor folks and all their millions that they’ve got, millions. And they’re trying to help us, I guess, make our million like they did. No, I’m not sure. But there’s some people that have a lot of money, but you know they can struggle and be just as miserable as a poor man. But what he says here, he says this, don’t think that it’s some strange thing that’s happened to you because these things happen to all of us.

You just get different testing at different time. Aren’t you glad we all don’t have the same thing hit at the same time. So that some of us have done learn the lesson, we can help the other one. And then you helped her. And then later on, she has to help you and then just everybody needs each other. That’s why God designed it. But in verse 13, he says, but and here’s that word again, rejoice, rejoice. And as much as you are partakers of Christ’s suffering that when his glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with an exceeding joy.

See, you’re supposed to know and believe this and so you just kind of like reach out to the future because you know God’s Word is sure and you know you’re going to be rewarded and God’s going to be pleased and that makes you happy now, I’m satisfied, I’m pleased. And so it doesn’t matter what anybody says or does, you just keep doing what’s right. And it doesn’t matter whether you have good health, bad health. You got money, no money.

You just be faithful between you and God. Believing that God is watching and taking notes and keeping the books, is it going to take care of everything? And you’ll win in the long run. That’s what the meter word of God is saying. Of course you can go ahead and you can read a lot of that because the book of Peter is talking about sufferings. He just happened to see some of it, you know, the sufferance of Christ. And so he got a good, good view.

Look in Romans in chapter eight and verse 18, Romans and chapter eight. Romans chapter eight and verse 18, this is talking about you and me serving the Lord. It’s talking about us being mature, sons of God. See up here in verse 14, first of all, for as many as are led, led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons or the maturing sons of God. So you begin to grow when you begin to let the Lord lead you and realizing the Holy Spirit is living within you and he’s going to lead you into sufferings.

when Christ went up into the mountain, he says, and he was led by the Spirit into the mountain to be tempted by the devil. The Holy Spirit led him there. It was God that led Moses and the children of it into the wilderness. What up to the Red Sea? And look at all the problem they have, but who led them that way? The Lord. Why should you and I be exempt? Why should we be exempt? If God loves me and God loves you, he ought to give us the same opportunity, don’t you think?

Don’t you think God wants us to prove our love and faithfulness to him just like, well, he gave that opportunity to everybody else? Why should we be exempt? So let God use you. Let God have the freedom to do in your life whatever he wants to do without any lip. Well, I complain, well, I bad attitudes and just look to the Lord and trust Him. But anyway, he says on verse 18, for I reckon that the sufferings of this present, present time are not worthy to be compared, not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

See, there’s a present time and there shall be glory. Now you go through it now, knowing and believing that it will be worth it all. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. Part 2 of this teaching will conclude with tomorrow’s broadcast. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing tool free 1-800-576-3771.

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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s concluding message of this teaching will be a blessing to you and your family. realize that most people don’t have a good attitude, they have a prideful attitude. They have a me only attitude. You ever watch kids get in line when they go into school? I don’t know why it is. Somebody always thinks they have to be in front of the line. I don’t mind if they get behind me.

I just got a bad case of not me, I just, you know, me only. Well, I guess that’s the way it is. Have you ever noticed when we have the food in the auditorium sometimes? I have no clue how ideas that I always work out to be in the front of the line sometimes. I didn’t plan it that way. Somebody has to have prayer. Now Larry, that busted out too. You shouldn’t have done that. You know you’ve been on the internet and it’s gone all over the world.

His name is Larry. But rejoice, rejoice and get this. Look at the last part of that verse. Rejoice and be exceeding glad. For great is your reward, where? In heaven. So that means that in order for me to get rewarded for that persecution or those things that people say against me, somebody has to be watching. Somebody has to be keeping the books. Did you realize that your heavenly Father watches everything. Don’t you think that he knows how you’re being treated and that you can still have a good attitude?

It doesn’t seem like whatever happens because you know that when I get to heaven God’s going to reward me for whatever I’ve gone through and persecution or whatever it might be. And so here it makes a statement for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. Now you just read about that in the book of Acts on Wednesday night. How that you have prosecuted all the prophets before you. So it’s a it’s a good verse to always remember.

Remember he talks about seeing your good work when he talks about you being salt of the earth and the light of the world. It’s referring to lost people or the world seeing your works. See what he says there in verse 16. Let your light so shine before men.” Now, this light to shine before men is the response of what people do to you. It’s how you’re handling it. That causes them to see something better, something different. If you’re going to live like a lost man, I don’t think you’re going to be honored.

But he says, let your light so shine be foreman that they may see your good works. You see, what they were doing was not good, but your response is good or supposed to be good. And then he says, and glorify your Father, which is in heaven. Always be willing to give credit and honor to the Lord for what God’s done for you, but God is pleased when you suffer and you praise Him for it because You know God’s going to reward you.

And it can help your attitude while you’re here. Otherwise, you’ll just be a Christian with a bad, nasty attitude. And that’s not what the Lord wants. Looking first Peter in chapter one, first Peter chapter one. This is a familiar verse, but it’s good to look at, renew your mind one more time. First Peter chapter one. All right. As you know, we’ve talked about in verse four that when you’re saved, you’re saved from something to something. You’re saved from hell to in verse four to an inheritance and it’s incorruptible and undefiled that they, if not a way, reserved in heaven for you, for a kept by the power of God through faith and desalvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.

So you were saved by grace and your kept saved by grace. because you put your faith in what Christ did for you. So you’re rejoicing that. You’re glad you know you have eternal life. In spite of everything else that happens, you know you’re going to heaven. But now look what he says in verse six. Wherein ye greatly rejoice? You can rejoice about that, your salvation. But we just read in the book of Matthew chapter five about greatly rejoicing and be exceeding glad because of your life.

This period of time God’s got us to live. You know you’ll influence more people with a good attitude than you will with a bad attitude. With a smile on your face, more than a frown on your face. But get what he says in verse six. We’re in you greatly rejoice though now for a season. See this little period of time that we have to go through, this is just a little period of time. And we’re supposed to be found faithful.

And it has rejoiced there now for a season. If need be, ye are in heaviness. If need, you ought to take that word need and underline him. Did you know that there’s various times in your life that God knows what you need? Did you know that he knows that you need to learn a lesson? God knows when you need a trial or a testing.

Did you know that? Did you know that God could be the one that’s actually disciplining you, disciplining you? There’s a lot of people I like to disciple, and when they don’t do this, I try to follow up and help. You’re always doing that. Did you know that God, your heavenly Father, is doing the same? He knows more about what you need than you know. And so sometimes he knows that you need a rebuke. You need a testing. You need to be humbled.

are filled with pride or jealousy or envy or bitter. God knows and did you know that God can work things out the way time he gets through with you he can so humble you and you say Lord I’m so sorry I should have done that. God, God knows what he’s doing. You lift yourself up in pride and God will put you down. You humble yourself and God will exalt you and you don’t get exalted like you think you should.

Does God know that? Can you just go ahead to be faithful and have a right kind of act only because you know God is going to take care of it and I get to heaven God’s going to reward me. You win in the long run. You win. But look what he says. He says here in this verse, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptation. In other words, there’s things that weigh you down. There’s always problems. Every one of us has assets and liabilities.

All of us do. And God is always working in our lives. doesn’t stop. Just because next month I’ll be 70 doesn’t mean that that’s the end of it. I finally reached my peak and everything’s wonderful from then on. I hope so. I don’t think so though. And then in verse 7, the trial of your faith. Been much more precious than of gold which perishes though it be tried with, fire might be found on the praise, honor and glory win at the appearing of Jesus Christ.

So the time is coming, just always look for that and believe that because it will happen. 1 Peter 4, just look a little bit very quickly. 1 Peter 4. And you’ll notice there’s a few verses here that are really, really sharp. 1 Peter 4, look in verse 12, where he says, Beloved, thank it not strange concerning the, and you ought to underline these two words in your Bible, fiery trial, which is to try you. You see what’s coming this year?

You really want to know. This year, there’s going to be some fiery trials to try you. Did you know God can try your faith with success or would tell you with help and without help. You see, the man who I was reading in the paper this morning, how is talking about some of these presidential poor folks and all their millions that they’ve got. Millions. And they’re trying to help us, I guess, make our million like they did. No, I’m not sure.

But there’s some people that have a lot of money, but you know they can struggle and be just as miserable as a poor man. But what he says here, he says this, don’t think that it’s some strange thing that’s happened to you, because these things happen to all of us. You just get different testing at different time. Aren’t you glad we all don’t have the same thing hit at the same time? So that some of us have done learn a lesson.

We can help the other one then that you helped her then then later on she has to help you and then just everybody needs each other. That’s where God designed it. But in verse 13, he says, but and here’s that word again. Rejoice. Rejoice. and as much as you are partakers of Christ’s suffering, that when His glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with an exceeding joy. See, you’re supposed to know and believe this, and so you just kind of like reach out to the future because you know God’s Word is sure, and you know you’re going to be rewarded, and God’s going to be pleased, and that makes you happy now.

I’m satisfied. I’m pleased.” And so it doesn’t matter what anybody says or does. You just keep doing what’s right. And it doesn’t matter whether you have good health, bad health. You got money, no money. You just be faithful between you and God. Believing that God is watching and taking notes and keeping the books and is it going to take care of everything? And you’ll win in the long run. That’s what the me, the Word of God, is saying. Of course, you can go ahead and you can read a lot of that because the book of Peter is talking about sufferings.

He just happened to see some of it, you know, the sufferings of Christ, and so he got a good view. Look in Romans in chapter eight and verse 18. Romans and chapter eight. Romans, chapter eight, and verse 18. This is talking about you and me serving the Lord. It’s talking about us being mature sons of God. See up there in verse 14, first of all, for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons or the maturing sons of God.

So you begin to grow when you begin to let the Lord lead you and realizing the Holy Spirit is living within you And he’s going to lead you into sufferings. When Christ went up into the mountain, he says, and he was led by the Spirit into the mountain to be tempted by the devil. The Holy Spirit led him there. It was God that led Moses and the children of it into the wilderness, right up to the Red Sea. And look at all the problems they have, but who led them that way?

The Lord. Why should you and I be exempt? Why should we be exempt? If God loves me and God loves you, he ought to give us the same opportunity, don’t you think? Don’t you think God wants us to prove our love and faithfulness to him just like, well, he gave that opportunity to everybody else? Why should we be exempt? So let God use you. Let God have the freedom to do in your life whatever he wants to do without any lip.

Well, I complain in full, I bad attitudes and just look to the Lord and trust Him. But anyway, he says on verse 18, for I reckon that the sufferings of this present, present time are not worthy to be compared, not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. See, there’s a present time and there shall be glory. So you go through it now knowing and believing that it will be worth it all. At least I believe that’s what the Scriptures says.

It will be worth it all. Somebody wrote a song about that too one time. I think it’s a great thing. But take your Bible looking 2nd Corinthians in chapter 4. 2nd Corinthians and chapter 4. and look at verse 16. Verse 16. This verse here, verse 16, where it says, for which cause we faint not. It’s really coming from the first verse in chapter four, where it says, therefore seeing we have this ministry as we have received mercy. We faint not.

In other words, we don’t quit just because it gets rough. Just because it gets hard. We don’t quit. We don’t stop just because somebody don’t like us and somebody said something. We keep going because we want one thing after our name. And that is what describes you. you the best. And it should be the word faithful. Moreover, it is required and steward that a man be found faithful. Faithful to do what you can with what you have where you are.

Well, I believe that. See there in verse 16, for which cause we faint not? That means we don’t quit. We don’t stop. But though our outward man perished. In the word, the older we live, the body gets older and older and older. Sometimes we have to move out. But it says, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. Did you know spiritually you can get stronger and stronger and stronger as you get older and older and older? But you’ve got to keep doing what makes you strong.

And I would say for 51 years, I’ve been in church. I believe if I stop going to church, stop reading, stop praying, stop witnessing, stop. I don’t think I’m going to be very strong after a while. That just makes sense, doesn’t it? And so he says here in verse 17, for our light affliction, which is but for a moment, work for us far moreanchester eternal weight of glory. See, the glory comes after the work, after the suffering. And so that’s why he says, we don’t quit.

Otherwise, don’t you think the apostles would have quit long before? I mean, they did get stoned a little bit here and all kinds of things they went through. I mean, it was pretty bad. Wouldn’t you have quit? How would you like to be Dr. Apostle Paul? Five times he would be with a cat and nine tails. Stoned and now the people that took vows to kill him, wasn’t going to eat or sleep until he was dead. And yet miraculously God intervened and gave him the strength and the grace and it even protected him and you know Paul didn’t die until God was ready We just read about Stephen in the book of Acts and how that when he died the Bible says in Jesus standing Jesus was standing I believe He saw Jesus But don’t you know Jesus saw him?

Don’t you know that Jesus knew what they were going to do to him? I do. I believe it. So do you believe that serving the Lord is worth it? If you do, you will. If you don’t, you won’t. You can’t make a blind man see. That’s Tom. No. You can’t make people serve God. You can’t make anybody love God. as the decision they have to make. But anyway, he makes a statement here in verse 18, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.

For the things which are seen are temporal, things which are not seen are eternal. So we live our life based upon that which you cannot see, but we believe it because God said it. And we know that God doesn’t lie and God doesn’t make mistakes. So we are very thankful to the Lord. Take your Bible looking 2 Thessalonians. 2 Thessalonians, and look there in chapter one, chapter one.

2 Thessalonians chapter one. And you notice there in verse three, verse three. We are bound to give thanks. The thank God always for you brethren, as it is to meet or necessary fit. Because that, your faith, grow up exceedingly. And the charity of every one of you all toward each other abounded. So the word faith, you ought to underline it maybe. And the word charity, the word charity means what? Love. So he’s talking about their faith. He’s talking about their love.

And then when you look down in verse four, he’s talking about their, their patient. You see there in verse four, so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your Persecutions and tribulations that you enjoy, that you endure. So here’s a letter written to people who are having a rough time, really going through some poverty. I mean they’re suffering. And he says, but through that, it demonstrates your faith. It gives you the opportunity to show your love, to show your patience.

So they are opportunities. And every one of us, we probably always ask the Lord, Lord, give me an opportunity. You ever use that word? Lord, give me an opportunity. Give me an open door. And then the tire goes flat, the motor blows up, Radiator leaks, but you ask for a opportunity. You see, there’s things that happens in our lives to give us opportunities. And so we all have these wonderful opportunities.

But the last part of verse four says that ye endure. So they are known. They reveal our character. In verse 5 he says, which is, and you ought to look at this real close, which is a manifold token of the righteous judgment of God. That means that God has to see your faith in your patience and your love, and God is allowing all these things to happen to you and I. Because God says it’s a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God.

Get this that ye may be counted and you ought to underline this word worthy worthy to suffer worthy of the kingdom of God for which ye also suffer. Are you worthy to suffer? for the Lord. Or do you run from the sovereign? You don’t want anything to go wrong. You want everything to go right. And because it doesn’t happen the way you want it because you wanted to plan your own life and you know that you’ve got I want this and this and this and this and this and God said oh here’s the blank piece of paper.

You just sign it down here and just let me fill it in. Alright. See we want to fill it in and say God would you sign it? No God said no no no You just go ahead and sign it. I’ll fill it in. Do you believe that God knows what’s best for us? If God really loves me, He would give me as many opportunities to prove my love and faithfulness to Him, if He really loves me. And He won’t leave me, He won’t forsake me, He won’t put upon me any more than what I can bear, and I have His word on that.

But I also know that there’s a fiery trial, And I should not think it’s some strange thing that’s happening to me. That I know that persecutions and all these things always comes before the praise, the honor and the glory. So he says here in verse 6, looking verse 6, seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you. In other words, it’s like God’s end. Don’t you worry about it? I’ll get them. You just go ahead and keep doing right right and loving the Lord and God says he’ll take care of everything else.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could really live according to what I just taught in these Scriptures every day. You know why I teach certain things because it’s what I need. We forget the Apostle Paul and Peter talked about stirring up your remembrance. And sometimes we don’t listen and learn something new but we should be reminded to refresh our minds of what God is like. What is He doing? And if you’re wondering, why do they let this happen to me?

Well, that’s not a badogene. There might be a reason. It might be that you’re just living in an old wicked, sinful world. And don’t always try to make something mean something. It’s just, just keep serving the Lord and keep faithful Lord. And look for opportunities as you live life. And God will bless you for doing so. But just because there might be somebody watching by internet. And no, they might just watch us for Sunday school and then they hurry up.

off to their church somewhere and made me not know the most important thing in all the world. This hand represents you and me. The wallet represents sin. We all have sin on us. God says that He loves us. He hates our sin, but He does love us. And to pay for sin is eternal separation from God in hell. But God loves us. Wants us to go to heaven. And to go to heaven we have to be perfect. This is righteous is the Lord and none of us are perfect.

None of us are righteous. We’re not good enough to go to heaven. And God says you can’t save yourself. You can’t do good works. to pay for sin. There’s no amount of money you can give to pay for sin. You see, the wages of sin is death. So that’s why God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, into the world to die for our sins. See, He loves us, but He hates our sin because our sin separates us from the Lord.

So Jesus Christ took our sins, paid for them on the cross, came back from the dead, And said, if we would believe that He did it for us, He would put this payment to our account, and we get to go to heaven on what Christ did. It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. He says, these things have I written unto you that believe. Now, some people will believe it, some people won’t. But those that do believe it, he says, these things have I written unto you that believe that you may know that you have eternal life.

So can you know your happy eternal life? Yes, he can. You can do it right now. If you trust Christ right now, as your Savior, God said, He would save you right now and give you as a free gift everlasting life. And He said, I’ll never cast you out and never lose you. Let’s pray, Shavu. Our Father, we do thank you so much for the free gift of eternal life. And Lord, if there’s anyone listening, we pray that the most important thing they could ever know, most important thing they can ever do is to believe that when Christ died, He died for them and that by faith alone in Him as their only hope of going to heaven is their only hope, their only way of going to heaven.

And Father, we just pray that you had helped each one to see and understand that. We also pray Lord concerning each person here. There’s a lot of things we don’t know and we can’t see the future, but there are things that you said in your word that we can expect. And so Father, we do thank you for all the opportunities that you’re going to give us. We pray that we’ll be found faithful and not want to run from them, but Father desire from you the grace and the strength that we need to bear them.

Because we know that you walk with us, you’re not put upon us anything greater than we can bear and that you want each one of us to be found faithful. So each one of us are special in your eyes. And each one of us are going to get specialized attention. And Father, when we get to heaven, each one of us are going to get the rewards that we have earned. And Father, we want everyone here to receive the honor, the glory, the praise.

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There’s a lot of people who are thinking that they are saved and are not. So therefore, that means a lot of people are being deceived today. They’re disillusioned. Many people are not really sure what it takes to get to heaven. No one will be saved after death. We often hear about, well, God will give you a second chance. Don’t even think that when you die, and if you’re not saved, God will give you another chance. God will give me another chance.

If he really loves me and really wants me to go to heaven, he’ll give me another chance. The Bible says, depart from me, I never knew you. He didn’t give you another chance. After this, the judgment, not a second chance. Otherwise, everybody would go to heaven. So evidently, God only gives you this time, this life, in which to trust him as your savior. But though that is true, there is a lot of people people who preach a wrong message.

If all this is true, there must be a lot of preachers though that are not preaching the truth. Good, nice, sincere preachers, but wrong. Let me ask you a question. How do you know I’m telling you the truth? How do you know I’m not deceiving you? Wouldn’t it be a shame for you to trust me for your eternal destination. Trust them that I’ve told you the truth and I’ve lied to you all along. And now when you die you wake up in hell for all eternity and you believed me.

So how do you know who to believe? If all of this is true and there really is a heaven and there really is a hell then you’d better make sure sure that what you think you believe is true. And how do you know? Let me give you a statement by Dr. Dehan. I used to listen to him already years ago. He said there’s a vast difference between coming to Jesus for salvation and coming after Jesus for service. Coming to Christ makes one a believer.

While coming after Christ makes one a disciple. All believers are not disciples. To become a believer, one accepts the invitation of the gospel. To be a disciple, one obeys the challenge of a life of dedicated service and separation. Salvation comes through the sacrifice of Christ, but discipleship comes only by sacrifice of self and surrender to his call for devoted service. Salvation is free, but discipleship involves paying the price of a separated walk. Salvation cannot be lost because it depends upon God’s faithfulness.

discipleship can be lost because it depend upon our faithfulness. Though he wrote that and I agree with it, it is simple. I believe it’s true because there’ll be confusion to the majority of people who just heard what I just read. Now salvation means eternal deliverance from hell. If we was going to say what is salvation. It is eternal deliverance from hell to heaven. It costs you nothing. It’s totally free.

The discipleship, that’s serving God. That can cost you everything. So understand there’s a difference between being saved and serving the Lord. Some people are trying to serve the Lord, hoping that if they do enough good, God will save them. No, all of your service and all of my service is supposed to be because we are already saved, not going to be saved, not working to be saved, not helping him save us. But all of my service that I’ve given to the Lord is because I have been passed in, been saved.

Not to be saved. I have been saved. Any person who is doing any of these good deeds in order to be saved are not saved. Because it means you’re not going to be saved until you finish doing all these good works. So you can’t rejoice in salvation because you don’t have salvation. I’ve enjoyed mine because I’ve had it. You can’t enjoy something you don’t have. Now I want you to look there in the book of Matthew chapter 7 and verse 15 very quickly.

There are false prophets, false teachers in the world. Some understand in pulpit all across this country and some of them look just like everybody else and I’ve had people say well all preachers are the same. No they’re not. They do not all have the same message. Here he says, be aware of false prophets which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are raven in wolves. You shall know them by their fruits. I want the happy people to say, well, you know, you can tell them by their fruits, talking about Christians.

So everybody thinks we’re supposed to all be fruit inspectors, go around with your magnifying glass and inspecting the fruit so you can tell whether or not who’s a Christian who’s not a Christian. Now, this verse refers to false prophets. False prophets you can tell. How do you tell? Well the Bible says you’ll know them by their fruit and Some people say well that means that way they live well it could be the way you live But there’s also a verse that talks about in the book of Hebrews in chapter 13 verse 15 that says the fruit of your lips Giving praise unto God So there’s the fruit of your lip the things that you say But how do you know this is referring to what they said?

Because he says a pair in verse 21 not everyone that does what? Say it They are saying something as the fruit of their mouth what they are saying is We’re trusting our works to save us because look what we did We did this and we did this we cast out devils. I mean we did wonderful things. We spoke in your name We did all the signs saying with my mouth Look what I did and what I did is why I should go to heaven and he says depart from me.

I never knew you That’s because they listen to false teachers False teachers tell you, look at your life and if you live good enough, you’ll make it. And if you don’t live good enough, you won’t make it. So you’re going to heaven, depends on how you live. So everybody thinks, well, you have to go to church to go to heaven because that’s what they’ve been told. They have to give money. But of course, if you don’t go to enough church or not or give enough money or to pray enough, you don’t know if you’re going to make it, not because well, you ain’t dead yet.

So you have to wait until you die to find out. false teaching. Very false teaching. I want you to take your Bible and look there in the book of Matthew chapter 5. Matthew chapter 5 and verse 48, the Bible tells us that God is perfect. Verse 48, be therefore perfect even as your Father which is in heaven is what? Perfect. If He’s perfect that means There’s nothing wrong with God. If he’s perfect, there’s no flowing God He says be ye perfect as your father, which is in heaven is perfect.

Oh boy If somebody was to ask me Run off the bat. What do I have to do to to go to heaven and to inherit eternal life? Be perfect Simple so you gotta be perfect Now isn’t that consoling? Now you know all you gotta do is just be perfect. Now what’s the problem with that? No one’s perfect. Well maybe you could try. Would you like to spend the rest of your life trying to be perfect? Well nobody’s ever done before but you might be the first one.

Well what are you gonna do about the things you’ve already done that’s wrong? Now what are you gonna do about that? If you can live perfect from this day forward, what are you gonna do about the way you already have lived? He says, being ye perfect as your Father, which is in heaven, is perfect. Means there’s nothing wrong with God. If you understood if God is perfect, then heaven also must be perfect. In the book of Revelation, chapter 21 and verse 27, he says, there shall in no wise enter into it anything that work of the domination or whatsoever make it the lie.

I mean, not even a lie. Now I know if I was to ask you and I think others have done this, ask you have you ever told, I’m going to hear never told a lie in your life, raise your hand, nobody can raise your hand. Well did you know that in James chapter 2 the Bible says that if you break one you broke, you broke them all. You have just admitted you broke in every commandment there is. Now, that’s what God said.

So if you had to be perfect and keep the law in order to go to heaven, it would be an impossibility. Now go back there to Matthew and chapter 19 and look there in verse 16. And behold, one came and said unto him, good master, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life. And Jesus said in verse 17, why call us thou me good? There is none good but one. that is God. But if thou will enter into life, keep the commandments.

Another way of saying, be perfect. How do you know that when he says, keep the commandments, he will say and be perfect? Very simple. You see, I always cheat. I always read a little bit further and get the answer before I ask you the question. So he says in verse 21, Jesus said to him, if thou will be what? Perfect. Go and sell all of a house because he’s already admitted, Oh, I’ve done this, and I did that, and I did this, and I did that.”

Well, Christ already knew that He had agreed that He coveted money. He coveted wealth. He said, OK, take everything that you got and go sell it. Because he didn’t matter how many you kept, did you break one? Yep, he broke one. What do I have to do to go to heaven? What do I have to do to have eternal life? Be perfect. Why would He tell Him that? so that man could see the impossibility of it. You see, some people think, oh, yeah, do it just be good.

No, you have to be perfect to go to heaven. Christ is perfect. Heaven is perfect. God is perfect. And to go there, you have to be perfect. And that’s why if you ever really see it, it’ll help you to understand why you cannot add works to the gospel. Now, notice what he says here. Down here in verse 25, after he had said this to the sky, Jesus Christ talking to this rich young ruler. His disciples stand here, listen to them, said in verse 25, when his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed saying, who then can be saved?

Well, what did they understand? That Jesus was saying, you have to be what? To go to heaven. You gotta be perfect. That’s why they said, they were amazed. You gotta be perfect. Who then can be saved? Didn’t look at verse 26, but Jesus beheld them and send it to them with what? Men, this is what? Impossible. In other words, it’s impossible for a man to do what? Be perfect. It’s impossible for a man to save himself. Now me, I can read that and I can see that.

It’s clear to the bell of my mind. I have no problem with that. Yet there’s a multitude of preachers that cannot see that. They do not read that. They cannot discern that. And they will tell people, you’ve got to keep the commandments to go to heaven. Christ is trying to show you the impossibility so that the law is not designed to save you. The law only points you to Christ. He can save you because it’s impossible for a man and the folly of some preachers that tell people that you have to stop a certain way of living or start living a certain way.

you know, stop being bad and start being good as though your efforts of what you do, a sinful man, is going to help God save you. Now let me show you something that’s very important. Look there in the book of Hebrews and chapter 5. Hebrews chapter 5 is a tremendous verse, And this is what it says. In verse 9. In verse 9. And being made, this is talking about Christ. Being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation.

Now listen to me. If he is perfect and becomes the author of eternal salvation, the wages of sin is what? Death. the wages of sin is death and he is the author of eternal salvation, then in his eternal salvation plan can be no sin. No room for sin because if there was sin in his plan of salvation, then his salvation could not be perfect and it could not be eternal because death would cause it to cease. Now you understand that don’t you?

If you don’t get it I’ll repeat it. He is the author of what kind of salvation, eternal salvation. If it’s eternal salvation, it has to be perfect salvation because He is perfect and He has developed a salvation that is eternal, a salvation that is perfect. How do you know it’s perfect? Because He’s the author of it and this is what He said. When He died on the cross and He had paid for sins of the world. The last thing he said was it is what?

It is finished. If it’s finished, there’s nothing else to add to it. It means that after the work Christ did, there is no work for man to do. Man’s got to stop some of his sins. Well, if he has to do that, you had just now entered sin into the plan. And it can’t be an eternal salvation. When Christ saves you, it is forever. It’s an eternal salvation. Not partial. Not until you see it. And again, Christ is perfect.

He is the author of eternal salvation. If it’s eternal salvation, it is a perfect salvation. And the work that He did is finished. There’s nothing else that needs to be done concerning the plan of salvation that anybody can add to. That’s why when you take an individual and try to get him committed to giving up something in his life, some work of the flesh, then that means that man is trying to do something by his own efforts, by what he stops or what he does to enter into that idea of that plan of salvation.

God says it cannot be. Any preacher that teaches you can be saved today, lost tomorrow because of something you do, that man is a false teacher. He is false. Totally false. He’s not of God. I don’t care who they are. Their message is a false message. They’re a false teacher, false preacher. You cannot add to the eternal gospel that he has given. God doesn’t want man tinking with it, adding to it, taking from it. To say you got to stop your sins to be saved is man’s efforts to save himself.

And then if you try to say, you got to live a certain way to be safe, that’s false teaching. Man’s works have nothing to do with it. You are accepting the work Christ did, not what you do. And some people cannot buy the idea. They just can’t believe that it would be so simple. I have you say, that’s just too easy just to believe. cli. But that’s all that it requires. Believe in me, you’re trusting in the work he did for you.

You’re not trusting in your work. See, if you think you got to stop your sins and to be saved, or you got to live a certain way to prove your saved, then what you’re doing is you’re adding your effort, your work to the gift of eternal life. And when you stop performing, you doubt your salvation. See, anybody who truly just trusts Christ is their Savior, never has to doubt their salvation again, because it doesn’t depend on them. But anybody who believes you can lose your salvation because of something that you do have reason to doubt being saved because there will always be something somewhere along the line that you won’t know whether I’m really saved or not because of the way I live.

Does that mean that I promote sinful living? No. But I’m not going to lie to anybody either to try to get people to live right. Do I want people to serve God? Yes, I do. I don’t know any preacher that hits it harder than what I do. but you do not serve God to be saved. Now take your Bible and turn to the book of Philippians in chapter 3. In Philippians chapter 3 I want you to see this in verse 3 and understand that there are no works that a man can do in order to qualify to be saved.

It’s not that Lord I finally confess I stop all my sins I promise that I’m gonna serve you and I’m good enough for you to save now. No, you think God’s gonna save you because you promised that you’re gonna quit your sins when it’s an impossibility? Do you know it is impossible for you to turn from all your sins? Impossible? That’s why it’s not that way. Did you know it’s impossible for you to love the Lord by God with all the heart, mind, body, soul, and strength that’s impossible for you?

Why? Because you got to send for nature. Why tell people that you got to do the impossible and believe it that without giving them the cure sure I’ve told people if you want to go to heaven Just be perfect. What’s that you can’t do that? Yeah, you got to point Here in Philippians in chapter three looking verse three for we are the circumcision which rejoice or which worship God in the spirit and Rejoice in Christ Jesus and have in your on the line this in your Bible no Confidence in the what in the flesh?

No confidence in the flesh means no confidence in who I am. No confidence in what I’ve done. See in verse 5, if you talk about who you are, he said, well, I’m circumcised the eighth day. The stock of Israel of the tribe of Benjamin, the Hebrew of the Hebrews, is touching law fairs he looked who I am. I have no confidence in the flesh as to look who I am. When my dad was a preacher, my uncle was a preacher, my great-granddad, he was a preacher.

Boy, I was raised in church all my life and I sing in the choir and I go, that has nothing to do with nothing. Zero! No confidence in the flesh! Looking for six concerning zeal? Boy, am I motivated. I mean, I give to all the humanitarian needs and I help to feed the poor children. Boy, I give my body the burn if it was necessary. I’ll do anything like that. And buddy, that has nothing to do with anything. Concern is he’ll persecute in the church, touching the righteousness, which is in the law, blameless.

He said, man, you talk about what I’ve done. God’s not impressed with what you’ve done or what you’re going to do. When it comes to going to heaven, it’s not of works. It’s not by the works of righteousness which we have done or the works of righteousness which we promise to do. God never saved you because of the works of righteousness. I stop all my bad needs. And that’s why God saved you. Think again, He didn’t save you because you quit sins.

He never saved you because you promise you’re gonna live for Him. He saved you only one way, and that is did you or did you not? Did you accept the payment He made on the cross for you? Are you truly trusting Christ to take you to heaven? If you haven’t done that, you’re lost with a houndball getting into the soup bone. You won’t go to heaven. Many people think and they’re saved, not saved. And I’ve traveled around on preaching enough churches.

And a lot of those people, I’ve been people in independent fundamental Bible evolutionary minded Baptist churches lost. People that sing on the choir, people that have been deacons, lost. People that teach Sunday school classes, lost. Because you see, they never really trust the Lord. They just know they want to go to heaven and they think that because they mean well and they join the church or they quit some of the things in their life and they want to serve God, that’s salvation.

That’s not salvation. That don’t even help you to be saved. That doesn’t get you a little pinky’s one inch closer to the pearly gates. Whenever you die, it’s dead, you or did you not trust Christ? And he’s the one who knows whether you did or you didn’t. He’s not interested in whether you sung in the choir. He don’t care what you did. That has nothing to do with you going to heaven. You’re getting to heaven is free, totally free only.

there is no flesh involved. It means that you’re not trusting in your good deeds. You’re not trusting in who you are. You’re not trusting in what you’ve done that gets you to heaven. And yet you can ask some people, how do you know you’re going to heaven? Well, I’ve been going to church all my life. I’ve been sincere, not giving money. You don’t get it. And yet you can be there so close and not really get what he’s talking about.

Look in verse 7. Remember this when he talks about the word gain, it means there’s no pluses. There’s no pluses. Christ plus. No. In verse 7, but what things were gained to me or pluses for me? Look who I am. Look what I’ve done. Well, those ought to count for some, those ought to be some good brownie points. Those are some pluses in my life. He says, no. Those were lost, not gained. She says here in verse eight, Yay Dallas and I count all things, but lost for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ, Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and do count them, but manure that I may win Christ and get verse nine and be found where in him not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of

Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith. God will not give you his righteousness when you’re trying to work and get your own. You have to totally give up, surrender, stop, trusting in anything you have ever done or ever will do. It’s not a matter, and this is why when you hear preachers tell you that you have to turn from your sins to be saved, that preacher’s not clear. That preacher’s messing with your mind. That’s not the book.

When preachers tell you that you have to make Christ the Lord of the master in your life in order for you to get to heaven, that’s not true. That’s telling you you gotta stop something, you gotta join something and you’ll trust in what you did for your salvation. And then whenever you got sins in your life and then when you find out he’s not the Lord and Master of all of things in your life, you’ll begin to doubt whether you’re saved or not.

And you have rights to because you’re trusting the wrong thing. If I am 100% totally trusting Christ to give me to heaven, if he don’t get me there, I don’t get there. He don’t save me, I’m not saved. He don’t give me eternal life. I don’t have it. And I’ve never sworn a cuss word in my life. I’ve never drank in my life. I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life. And people say, well, you got to live right to go to heaven.

Dream on. It’s not by works of righteousness. It’s only through Christ and Him alone is your only hope of ever getting to heaven. Now, the only way I know that somebody is saved is because of what they tell me they’re trusting in them and get them to heaven. If they tell me they’re putting any confidence at all and anything that they’ve done, I doubt it. their salvation. I doubt their salvation. Why? Because God says if you trust in anything other than Him, God says you not say, He said, I didn’t say it.

He says Christ propheteth you nothing. Nothing. Is it important? Oh, I think so. Remember this, when you talk about whether you stop something or you’ve got to start doing a certain thing, it is impossible, impossible for a man to totally turn from all of the sins. So why tell them he asked them what they do. Why tell a person that you have to make Christ the Lord and Master of your life in order to be saved? It’s impossible. That’s impossible.

But then they’ll leave it there. But tell you that’s what you got to do. And so now you try to live the impossible life. That’s why you have people sometimes that say, well I like to be a Christian, but I can’t live it. What they mean is they’re honest. They know they’re, they’ve got things in their life and they don’t have the power to quit them or to change them. They know that they have no desire to go to church every Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night.

How many times you got to go to church? You had to go, well, you got to give money. Okay, how much? What if you give it to your own church? That’s not the Bible. It’s not anywhere in here. Salvation is free. He has given to us an eternal salvation. It’s a perfect salvation because man has nothing to do with it. A perfect God had a perfect plan. It is finished. All we’re doing is accepting it or rejecting it, but you cannot add to it.

This hand represents you and me and this wall of represents sin. We all have sin upon us. God loves us, hates our sin. And because you and I have sinned, we’re condemned, all condemned. God says, you cannot save yourself. It is impossible to go to heaven. We have to be perfect because heaven is perfect. God is perfect. And you and I aren’t. And therefore, there’s nothing that we can do to be perfect. It’s impossible. With men, it’s impossible. This hand represents Jesus Christ.

God in the flesh. He came into the world because He loves us. Hates our sin because they separate us from Him. So Christ took the sin, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead. Because of what He did, it is possible for Him to do what we could not do. We can accept what He did for us. We are only accepting a work that He did. There is not a work for us to do. But to him, that work, not believe it on him, that justified the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

So when you and I believe that, he gives us eternal life and we go to heaven on what Christ did for us. I hope that you have trusted Christ as your Savior. Let’s pray, Shallelujah. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you are blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing tool free.

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Don’t you take your Bible and turn with me to the book of First Chronicles in chapter 12, Chronicles in chapter 12. First Chronicles chapter 12 in the Old Testament and I want to share with you a few things about understanding the times in which you and I live. I guess you could all understand that it could be titled Ignorance is not bliss. Many people think Ignorance is bliss. Oh, no it isn’t. And you’ll find that out one day because God wants us to know so much.

Kind of like his guy, he said to his girl, he says, you know, I have half of mine to get married. He says, that’s all it takes. You’ll find that ignorance is not bliss. First chronicles in chapter 12, I want you to look there in verse 32. Verse 32, not a lot around this that I want to cover. I just want to cover a statement that it makes. And it says in verse 32, and of the children of Issachar, which were men, and you ought to on the Linus in your Bible that had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do, understand in the time, know in what Israel ought to do.

You and I ought to understand the times so that you and I can do what we ought to do. And I believe that as we go through some of the scriptures, you’ll see that men have not always understood what they ought to do because they don’t understand the times in which they live. They don’t know what’s going on. So take your Bible and turn to the book of Luke chapter 4, the gospel of Luke in chapter 4. Now some of this might make some sense, some of it may not, but here in the book of Luke, in chapter 4, I want you just to notice the unbelief here, the unbelief, how people are perceiving something that is taking place in their time and they don’t realize who they’re seeing, who they’re facing, what’s been said.

Yet they went to the synagogue every Sabbath and they listened to the Word and yet did not understand. And now right before them is Jesus Christ, the Son of God, right there. And He reads the scriptures and it says this day these scriptures are fulfilled in your ears. That’s awesome. I would have loved to have been there. Of course I have mixed emotions I just hope that I wouldn’t be one of those that would let’s throw them over the cliff and kill them.

Hopefully I’d be one of those that would be an awe. It seems like people who want to know the truth should be able to see and understand these things and get God is holding a hole them responsible for their unbelief. Look what he says here in verse 16. He came to Nazareth where he had been brought up and as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, stood up for the reed. And there was a liver to him the book of the prophet Isaiah when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he had been learning me to preach the gospel to the poor and he had sent me to heal the broken hardened to preach deliverance to the captive and recovering of the sight to the blind to

set at liberty them that are bruised to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.” And he closed the book. He gave it again to the minister and sat down. The eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, today, this day. Is this scripture fulfilled in your ears? And they didn’t know who he was. They whisked not. The Babies that were whisked many times in the scriptures means they didn’t know, they didn’t understand, they did not perceive.

What was taken place right dead in front of them. And he later refers to a statement where he says, a prophet hath no honor in his own country. Now you might not understand this, but a lot of times when you trust Christ is saving, you want to serve the Lord. Sometimes those that are the closest to you don’t understand you. They won’t see it. They won’t get it. And I think it’s sometimes years, and maybe even when a person gets to heaven before they realize the person that they were married to, that wife of theirs or that husband of theirs was one great person, but they didn’t appreciate it at the time.

They didn’t realize what they had. You know a lot of people go through life and they don’t realize what they have until they what? Until they lose it. Until they lose it. You don’t realize the opportunities. They say the opportunity knocks and is gone. Temptation will lean on the doorbell. I’ll say that again. Opportunity is like on wheels. It’ll come your way and it’s moving on. A being being prepared is being able to take that opportunity when it arrives, being prepared.

Not to do so, it’s on wheels. Maybe never to return again. There’s opportunities that you and I are going to have in life and they’re coming by, and we may never get them again. Wisdom is being able to see, to perceive, take advantage of what you have before you. I never really, and now it was those years I was in Colorado, appreciated as much the ministry that I had till I left. And then years later, I realized what we had.

But while I was there, it was just like it was a normal thing to have 15, 20, 25, and sometimes 50 people trust Christ to save you. every Thursday night, the average of 415 teenagers to have eight and nine hundred kids come on to rent. They couldn’t fit in here. I mean, just a handful of them, they wouldn’t fit in this room. They would pat that gymnasium over there. And I just took it for granted because everybody was working, everybody was doing something.

And I didn’t realize what I had. Cilatra had done left and then tried to do it again. And it won’t happen again. You are there for a moment and opportunities come and opportunities go. But temptation leans on the doorbell. It’s waiting for you, waiting for you, waiting for you. But the opportunities of life to serve a Lord, you realize how short life is. And there’s things that one day you and I are going to grieve about. Wonder why God didn’t give us a chance or an opportunity.

There’s something wonderful to agree. And God says, I had so many that I gave to you. And you never took advantage of it. you didn’t perceive the times in which you lived. You didn’t see the opportunity. You didn’t seize upon the moment. You let it slip away. Look what he says. In verse 22, “…and all bear him witness, wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, is not this Joseph’s son? We know him.

He’s illegitimate.” He said He said to them, ye were surely saying to me this proverb, physician, he of I saw, because nobody else will. Nobody else is gonna believe you. He says whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do here also in this country. But he said he couldn’t do them because of their, their unbelief they would not believe. They want him to be a little magician that they can snap their fingers. They say do this trick force, do this trick force.

And verse 24, now look at the statement that Christ made. Verily I say unto you, no prophet is accepted in his own country. In other words, people where he are that really know you sometimes don’t appreciate you. Now there’s a good possibility that wherever you are, even on your job, people don’t know what a great person you are because of what you know. You know how to have eternal life and go to heaven. You live right, you try to talk to them, you share the gospel and they don’t want nothing to do with it.

They won’t know until they get to the judgment what they had right there in front of them. They had somebody who poured out their heart, prayed for them, cared about them, witnessed them, and they had noticed our for any of it. And you’re going to have to go through that. And it’s going to hurt you sometime and cut you quick, but understand that Jesus Christ went through that very same thing, those times of rejection. A prophet happened to wander in his own country.

And then he uses a couple of illustrations that most time I believe people when they see this, they already appreciate it. Because he says, do you remember that when Elijah was back there and they had the three and a half years of drought? All these people, in all these cities, and all over Israel, he wound up going to a house of a lady who was a widow in a heathen town, a siren. in Palestine. And he went there because even though there was a lot of people hurt him, but there was a woman there that gave to the man of God.

And look what he says in verse 25, but I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel, many, there were many widows in Israel. In the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months. Great famine throughout all the land, but was none of them was Elijah’s end, saving the serapha a city of Sidon unto a woman that was a widow. He went to a heathen woman and not to the house of Israel because of prophet hath no honor in his own country.

They didn’t appreciate this man. He had didn’t appreciate this man. They had 450 prophets that turned against Elijah. All these things were going on. But yet in their midst was a man of God that could perform miracles, do all kinds of things. But their unbelief caused a great man to go to a widow that was a heathen in Palestine. And yet there were many widows. Christ tells the story. You would think He probably went to a lot of them did all the…

No, He only went to one person, one time. And she had an opportunity laid before it, and she took advantage of that opportunity. She made the last thing that she had. She says, I’m just going to eat this last meal, and my son and I were going to die. We’re going to starve to death. But because of what she did, her oil never run out. And God blessed her. And her son died and brought him back to life. You see, so many people miss so many opportunities because they don’t appreciate what’s right in front of them, what they have.

I would venture to say, and I’m just guessing, some of y’all may have never really appreciated Hank Lindstrom like you should have until he was gone. I’m not saying you did, but he was a great man. He was a good man. He loved the gospel, He loved souls, and we give His life for the sake of the gospel, and probably did. But after a person’s gone, you think, man, I should have prayed for Him more. I wonder if I could have helped Him more, and not realize sometimes what you have right in your hands.

I did that with the people that I had, and sometimes not appreciating people like I should have. Do you think it’s possible Christians can do stuff like this Until it’s too late, I wanted my mom to love me. I wanted my mom to be proud of me. Believe it or not, I even wanted my dad to be proud of me. But he’d have when I was 13. He had no clue what I’ve done. But when it’d been great to have a dad say, you know, son, I’m proud of you.

Son, I love you. Don’t we want something like that from those that we think should know us the best, and sometimes we fail to realize what we have. Some of you may lose your wives, and you think, man, I should have treated her better. I shouldn’t have spoke so harsh and so mean and unkind. We should have never had those arguments that we had. I should have treated my kids better than I did. I failed my kids. I should have done this, so I should have done that.

But after a while ago, it’s too late. They’re gone. When my son was brutally murdered, you have no idea how many times I thought in my mind, what I could have done, what I should have done. I could have been a better father to him. I could have loved him better. But it’s gone. I’ll never get that opportunity again. That was 20 years ago last month. Do you think I think of stuff like that? Opportunities that are forever gone.

We’re now living at a time in history where it’s you and I. We weren’t here a hundred years ago, and we won’t be here a hundred years from now. This is our time. This is our moment. This is where we get the opportunity to take advantage of whatever God has for us. To learn whatever God has for us to learn. Well, look what else it says. When he makes the statement in verse 27, and many lepers were in Israel.

Now, talk about the many lepers in Israel. Evidently, Jesus knew every one of them. New every one of these lepers and knew exactly where they were. But who does he wind up healing? Who’s Elijah Hill? Is it those lepers in Israel? No. God had a lot of little Jewish girl to be taking captive in this area. And there was a man there, and name him had leprosy. And the little girl told about if he only knew about the man of God, the man of God.

You see, that was one little episode in a life of a great general, and all of a sudden, here’s a little slave girl who takes one opportunity in life if he only knew about the man of God. Maybe there’s just that one statement. If he only knew about the man of God in Israel, he knew something about it. What if it hadn’t have been heard? What if it hadn’t have been relayed? What if he hadn’t have got together and went all the way into Israel just to see this man of God?

And then when he got there, he thought that he would come out there and meet him and allah, allah, allah. You ought to read the whole story. And he was healed of his leprosy. Why? Because see, a prophet hath no honors on country. It means that sometimes you’re going to find out you’re not going to be appreciated all the time by the ones you know and love the best. That’s what taking a strong stand for the Lord is all about.

When it costs you something, when it hurts you. And you do what’s right and sometimes people don’t see it and they don’t understand. And it kind of twists your guts inside out. And you can’t explain it. And nothing like hurt, flight, rejection. We don’t think they really know care a lot. What did they want to do with Jesus? What He said all of these things? Do you think they were getting His drift? Well, all they wanted to do, well, it says they’re in verse 28.

And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were so impressed and filled with love and joy. And they wanted to declare Him King right there on the spot. Is that what it said? They were angry with what he said. Is what he said, was it true or was it false? He told the truth. Do you think before this ever took place? That Jesus who is God himself and he knew that those scriptures referred to him and this day shall these scriptures be fulfilled in your ears?

Do you think he knew the outcome of their mind thinking before he did the first thing and said the first thing? And yet he did it anyway. And sometimes I have already known how people are going to respond about things. And I will do it anyway, because if it’s truth, it’s truth. And if people get hurt because of truth and rebel, because of it and get offended, because so be it.

I cannot and will not try to ever change anything because I’m afraid it’s going to offend somebody. If truth offends, then let it offend because being offended was your choice. mind is to declare truth. What people do with truth is their choice. I do not purposely ever seek to try to offend anybody, but I know that truth is offensive. The most offensive person ever to come into this world was not Hitler, not Mussolini, not Stalin, not Osama bin Laden, thought him who’s saying the most offensive person in this world, ever coming to this world with Jesus Christ, he offended more people.

He made everybody mad. He split everybody. And it’s still going on today because he’s truth and people don’t want truth. And so it says in verse 29, and rose up and thrust him out of the city and led him unto the brow of the heel, where they said the city was built, that they might cast him down headlong, but he passed through them. What did they want to do with him? They wanted to kill him. What wrong had he done?

They wished not who he was. They didn’t understand the time to which they were living, when the Scriptures were being fulfilled at their time in their moment. And that one little synagogue and they blew it. They blew it. And you think, well, how could they be so blind? And you’d be surprised how many times you and I are doing the same thing. We’re not sensing the opportunities that God gives to us and what we could accomplish for the Lord.

Look there in Luke chapter 19. Luke chapter 19. Just a couple of scriptures I want to show you here that I think is very, very good. important. Look chapter 19 and look in verse 41. This is mentioned several times in the Scriptures about him looking over the city of Jerusalem. But look in verse 41 where he says, and when he was come near, he beheld the city. Talk about Jerusalem and wept over it. And it’s Jesus’ web. He’s webbed.

But why did he weep? Why was he crying? Saying. So what we’re reading here is something that he says weeping. If thou hath known, you ought to just think about that. If thou hath known, if you only knew, if you could only perceive. Here is talked about for almost 2,000 years about my coming. I give you all of these signs, and I’m here. He was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not.

They didn’t know who He was. Here is God in the flesh standing in front of them, talking to them, walking with them, all the miracles that he did. And they perceived not who was in their midst. Sometimes we don’t appreciate somebody until it’s too late. I don’t want it to be that you don’t appreciate your husband, your wife, or your kids. I know most of you do. Make sure you show it. Make sure you show it. And you do things now instead of living in regret, wishing you to done it differently down the road.

Look what he said, if thou hath known, even thou, at least in this thy day. You can see, you didn’t have last year, it’s gone. You have now, when? Now gone. And you may not have next year, you have now. Do you think God is concerned about our life and what’s going on and what we can do for Him? And opportunities He might send our way, an hour. Ipotion. I just want to take advantage of everything that I can think of.

By all means. By all means every mean because the devil will do every means he can to destroy us. And I will do everything I can to build us. And he makes a statement. IfPhiladelphia even thou at least in this sight if the things which belonged unto thy be. In other words, it’s This was planned at this particular time for this to happen, and for you people to be here. But see, God does not override the will of man’s ignorance.

He won’t override the will of man’s rebellion and his unbelief. If you choose not to know, not to perceive, not to understand, God does not force his light upon you. He says in verse 43, he said, for the days shall come. Upon the enemy shall cast a trench about the and compass the round and keep the in on every side. Shall lay the even with the ground and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave in the one stone upon another.

And you ought to underline the last part of that verse. Because, because, why? Because, because thou knewest not the times of the visitation. When God came to visit, the time of Thy visitation, someone came to your house. He told you he was coming, he announced it, and then when he got there, you didn’t want him, you didn’t want anything to do with him. How do you think Jesus Christ felt? That’s why he said he wept over the city. He wasn’t talking about the buildings, he’s talking about the people.

God loved his people. And he says, this was designed with you in mind. This is for you. And all the things that some of the things that have happened for the 2000 didn’t have to take place. It was a legitimate offer. God doniframe games, and they would not believe. Look there in Matthew chapter 13. Matthew chapter 13 is interesting. Chapter deals with a lot of parables, but I want to go through this kind of quickly here, just a part of it.

Matthew chapter 13. I want you to look there in verse 10. Verse 10. And the disciples came and said to him, why speakest thou unto them in par He answered and said unto them, because there’s a reason, because. You see, when he had a mixed audience, a mixed multitude, He was speaking so that those that wanted to know the truth could understand or didn’t want to know the truth, they wouldn’t get it. Did you realize that God’s work and be preached from the pulpit?

You can hear the same words. Some people will grow and others will be stagnant. You know that God already knows who will do the will of God and who will not do the of God and said, those that will do the will of God shall know of my doctrine.” John 17. But here in Matthew he makes a statement because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

Why isn’t it given to them? He said, because they’re hard-hearted, they’re stiff-necked, they won’t listen, they’re ears they won’t hear, their eyes they refuse to see. He says they’re in verse 13, therefore speak I to them in parable because they seeing see not hearing they hear not need do they understand now notice what he says that he’s referring to an Old Testament scripture in the book of Isaiah where it says in verse 14 and in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which sayeth by hearing you shall hear and shall not understand seeing you shall see and not perceived for this people’s heart roared.

Their ears haha are dull of hearing.ovych doesn’t matter if I hear or understand what you’re saying, I’m not going to do it. God knows that even if you heard the word of God in your heart you have already decided I will not do the will of God. And opportunities will come but you won’t see them. God will speak but you will not hear. You’ll find yourself one day realizing I let all my great opportunity slip away. I’ve wasted my life.

I wasted my life. What do you think at the judgment seat of Christ when he talks about the haywoodenest stubble, the gold, silver and precious stone, that it will try every man’s work of what sort it is. Is it gold, silver and precious stones or is it haywooden stubble? Do you believe that God’s people could have some haywooden stubble? It means the times of your life that burn up and wasted. And a lot of Christians are wasting their whole lives wasting it.

To no profit, no gain. And they don’t seem to get it. They just don’t understand. They don’t perceive. It never changes their life. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. Part 2 of this teaching will conclude with tomorrow’s broadcast. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing tool free 1-800-576-3771.

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What? Because you see, a prophet has no honors on the country. It means that sometimes you You’re going to find out you’re not going to be appreciated all the time by the ones you know and love the best. That’s what taking a strong stand for the Lord is all about when it costs you something, when it hurts you. And you do what’s right and sometimes people don’t see it and they don’t understand. And it kind of twists your guts inside out and you can’t explain it.

And nothing hurts like rejection. You don’t think they really know care. What did they want to do with Jesus? What He said all of these things. Do you think they were getting His drift? Well, all they wanted to do, well, it says they’re in verse 28. And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were so impressed and filled with love and joy. And they wanted to declare Him king right there on the spot. Is that what it said?

They were angry with what He said. Is what He said, was it true or was it false? He told the truth. Do you think before this ever took place that Jesus who is God himself and he knew that those Scriptures referred to him and this day shall these Scriptures be fulfilled in your ears? Do you think he knew the outcome of their mind thinking before he did the first thing and said the first thing? And yet he did it anyway.

And sometimes I have already known how people are going to respond about things and I will do it anyway, because if it’s truth, it’s truth. And if people get hurt because of truth and rebel because of it and get offended because of it, so be it. I cannot and will not try to ever change anything because I’m afraid it’s going to offend somebody. If truth offends, then let it offend. Because being offended was your choice. mind is to declare truth.

What people do with truth is their choice. I do not purposely ever seek to try to offend anybody, but I know that truth is offensive. The most offensive person ever to come into this world was not Hitler, not Mussolini, not Stalin. Not Osama bin Laden. Thought him who’s saying the most offensive person in this world ever coming to this world with Jesus Christ. He offended more people. He made everybody mad. He split everybody. And it’s still going on today because He’s truth.

And people don’t want truth. And so it says in verse 29, and rose up and thrust him out of the city and led him unto the brow of the heel, where they said the city was built that they might cast him down head long. But he passed through them. do they want to do with them? They wanted to kill him. What wrong had he done? They wish not who he was. They didn’t understand the times in which they were living when the Scriptures were being fulfilled at their time and their moment in that one little synagogue and they blew it.

They blew it. And you think, well, how could they be so blind? And you’d be surprised how many times you and I are doing the same thing. We’re not sensing the opportunities that God gives to us and what we could accomplish for the Lord. Look there in the book of Luke chapter 19. Luke, chapter 19, just a couple of scriptures I want to show you here that I think is very important. Luke, chapter 19, and look at verse 41.

This is mentioned several times in the scriptures about him looking over the city of Jerusalem. But look at verse 41 where he says, and when he was come near, he beheld the city, talking about Jerusalem, and wept over it. And it’s Jesus’ web. He’s webbed. But why did he weep? Why was he crying? Saying. So what we’re reading here is something that he says, weeping. If thou hath known. You ought to just think about that. If thou hath known, if you only knew, if you could only perceive.

Here it’s talked about for almost 2,000 years about my coming. I give you all these signs, and I’m here. He was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not. They didn’t know who He was. Here is God in the flesh standing in front of them, talking to them, walking with them, all the miracles that He did. and they perceive not who was in their midst. Sometimes we don’t appreciate somebody until it’s too late.

I don’t want it to be that you don’t appreciate your husband, your wife, or your kids. I know most of you do. Make sure you show it. Make sure you show it. And you do things now instead of living in regret, wishing you to done it differently down the road. Look what he says, If thou hath known, even thou, at least in this thy day, You can see, you didn’t have last year, it’s gone. You have now. When? Now, gone.

And you may not have next year. You have now. Do you think God is concerned about our life and what’s going on and what we can do for Him? And opportunities He might send our way, but we may not take advantage of it? I just want to take advantage of everything that I can think of. By all means, by all means every mean. Because the devil will do every means he can to destroy us. And I want to do everything I can to build us.

And he makes a statement. If thou hath known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong unto thy be. In other words, it’s for you. This was planned at this particular time for this to happen And for you people to be here, but see, God does not override the will of man’s ignorance. He won’t override the will of man’s rebellion and his unbelief. If you choose not to know, not to perceive, not to understand, God does not force his light upon you.

He says in verse 43, He said, for the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side. Shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another, and you ought to underline the last part of that verse. Because, because, why? Because, because thou knewest not the times of the visitation. When God came to visit, the time of Thy visitation, someone came to your house.

He told you he was coming. He announced it. And then when he got there, you didn’t want him. You didn’t want anything to do with him. How do you think Jesus Christ felt? That’s why he said he wept over the city. He wasn’t talking about the buildings. He’s talking about the people. loved his people. And he says, this was designed with you in mind. This is for you. And all the things that have happened for the 2000 didn’t have to take place.

It was a legitimate offer. God don’t play games and they would not believe. Look Matthew chapter 13, Matthew in chapter 13. Matthew chapter 13 is interesting. Chapter deals with a lot of parables, but I want to go through this kind of quickly here just a part of it. Matthew chapter 13, I want you to look here in verse 10. Verse 10, and the disciples came and said to him, why speakest thou unto them in parables? He answered and said unto them, because there’s a reason, because You see, when he had a mixed audience, a mixed multitude, he was speaking parables so that those that wanted to know the truth could understand and those that didn’t want to know the truth, they wouldn’t get it.

Did you realize that God’s work had been preached from the pulpit and those that want to learn can learn and those that don’t want to learn won’t learn? You can hear the same words. Some people will grow and others will be stagnant. Do you know that God already knows? who will do the will of God and who will not do the will of God?” And he said, those that will do the will of God shall know of my doctrine.

John 17. But here in Matthew, he makes a statement, because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. Why isn’t it given to them? He said, because they’re hard-hearted, they’re stiff-necked. They won’t listen. Their ears, they won’t hear. their eyes, they refuse to see. So he says there in verse 13, therefore speak I to them in parable because they seeing see not hearing they hear not need to do they understand.

Now notice what he says that he’s referring to an Old Testament description, the book of Isaiah where it says in verse 14, and in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which sayeth by hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, seeing you shall see and not perceived. For this people’s heart is waxed gross or hardened. Their ears are dull of hearing. In other words, it doesn’t matter if I hear or if I understand what you’re saying, I’m not going to do it.

God knows that even if you heard the word of God in your heart you have already decided I will not do the will of God. And opportunities will come but you won’t see them. God will speak, but you will not hear. And you’ll find yourself one day, realizing I let all my great opportunity slip away. I’ve wasted my life. I wasted my life. What do you think at the judgment seat of Christ when He talks about the haywoodness stubble, the gold, silver, and precious stone, that it will try every man’s work of what sort it is.

Is it gold, silver, and precious stones? Or is it Hey, wouldn’t stubble? Do you believe that God’s people could have some hey, wouldn’t stubble? It means the times of your life that burn up and wasted. And a lot of Christians are wasting their whole lives wasting it to no profit, no gain. And they don’t seem to get it. They just don’t understand, they don’t perceive. It never changes their life. They hear the word of God, they soak it in Nothing ever happens.

Nothing ever changes. No decisions are made. No corrections in their life. They just keep doing the same old thing. They’ve always done. Same old habits they’ve always had instead of working in your life and discipline your life and trying to be as God as you possibly can be. Nothing changes. No power in their life. No influence in the lives of other people. And yet one day when we stand before the Lord God says, I gave you thousands of opportunities and you didn’t take advantage of them.

You lost your power of influence. Nobody would believe you. Your testimony was shot for whatever the reason. And get what he says. And verse 15, he says, for this people’s heart as wax grows, their ears are dull up here, and their eyes they have closed, it’s because of what they’ve done. They have closed. He said, lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, should understand with their heart and should be converted and I should heal them.

But no, they chose not to. Did you know a lot of things in life doesn’t have to be that way, but because of the hardness of people and they refuse to be sensible, to be teachable, pliable, teachable in the hands of God so that God can mold Him into the kind of a person that God wants to be. God wants all of us to have this vision. Two other scripts I want to show you right quick before we close.

First Corinthians chapter two. First Corinthians and chapter two. I’ve looked at this with you before but I just want to briefly refresh your mind. And first Corinthians in chapter two, look there in verse three, the apostle Paul, great man of God. He says, I was with you in weakness. And in fear and much trembling. You ever feel like that sometimes? Serving the Lord can do that to you. And sometimes you’re not as strong as you think you are. But sometimes you just go ahead and you do right because courage is nothing but fear that says its prayers and goes ahead.

He says in verse four, my speech, my preaching, was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the spirit and the power. Remember this, it’s not so important that a person who preaches or teaches a Sunday school class or whatever has a super duper outline Where you can get up and preach a great sermon Because you can preach a great sermon and not have a message It’s better to have a message What is that message that I believe God wants me to give to the people?

So those that speak on Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night, whatever night, ranch on Friday night, Saturday, I don’t care. There has to be a message, not just a beautiful outline sermon with the three points in the poem, you got to have a message. What is it that you believe that God wants me to say to the people? What’s that message? There’s got to be something that reaches to the heart of man, that somehow it burns inside of a person, something that can change a person’s life.

He says here in verse 7, but we speak the wisdom of God in the mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world under our glory, which get this none of the princes of this world knew. For had they known it, had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. Why did they crucify the Lord of glory? Because they didn’t know who he was. They didn’t believe who he was. They didn’t listen to what he had to say.

But they blinded their eyes. They closed their ears. And that’s why they did what they did. You trusted Christ as your You’re saving your God’s child. You’re going to heaven. Your eyes are open. You heard. But if you don’t watch it, you realize that as a Christian, you can start closing your eyes and become dull of hearing, where you are no longer effective for the Lord. And you can sit on the pew, but God will set you on the shelf.

You understand what I’m saying? You can sit on that pew and you can be faithful to the day you lead this world. But God has put you on the shelf because God knows the heart and knows that you’re rebellious in your heart and you have hardened yourself against the will of God. You refuse to change or make any corrections in your life. God knows. And you may pass up some great opportunities and you can even get to the place where you don’t know really know and understand that person you’ve been living with all your life.

And they not appreciate them like you ought to. or even the people in the church until they’re gone. I am just starting to know some of you people. Some of you are not so bad. If I had just came here and you died that week, the same week I can you died, I probably would not have shed a tear. Cause I didn’t know you. Now I’m getting to learn you. I spent some time with some of y’all. You died now, I probably shed a tear.

Might not, but I might. You’ve weaseled your way into my heart. I can get you out of my hair, but I can’t get you out of my heart. And so you become more precious as time goes on because you spend time with people and you learn people and you appreciate people. I appreciate the people we have in this ministry. And I know that if I was to lose anybody, it would break my heart. It would hurt me. Because I’ve learned to depend upon individuals.

I depend upon y’all. You know that I’m getting older and I can’t do everything, but I got a lot of good people who do a lot of a lot. And I’m very thankful for that. But if they had known, if they had only known, they wouldn’t have done what they did. Last verse I want to show you in Matthew chapter 11. Look there real quick. Matthew chapter 11. Jesus Christ went around the nation of Israel preaching all the cities.

He came to a couple of them and he says, got some bad news for you. Because of their unbelief, he says, whoa, unto you in verse 21 of Matthew chapter 11. He says, Corazon, whoa, unto thee best say unto them, if the mighty works which were done in youth had been done entire inside them, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. In other words, if what I did here had been done there, there’d have been some changes made, but God didn’t do it.

God knows why he does what he does, but they blew their opportunity. In verse 22, but I send you it shall be more tolerable for tyrants out in the day of judgment than for you. In other words, there’s going to be judgment coming, but one has more light than the other. Because what I did here, and I didn’t do there, you’re responsible. God said, I know what you could have known, and you did understand, and you refused. God knows the potential of every individual.

God knows your potential, and God knows what you could You could have done if you had yielded. That’s why he can judge accordingly. Don’t mock light. Don’t mock light. I mean, don’t mock truth. Now, when he talks about a man being a fool, it’s because he mocks God. And how do you mock God? You mock sin. In the words, it doesn’t matter what I do. It’s not going to be that bad. And it is. Truth is something that people better not mock.

Don’t mock God. He is truth. Look at this. In verse 25 he says, at that time Jesus answered and he said, now here he’s in front of them, he just upgraded the people in this city. Then he says, as he turns to the Lord, He praised this prayer. I think the O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou has hid these things from the wise and the prudent. Wise and the prudent means in their own eyes and hath revealed them under babes.

You know sometimes a little child just has a simple childlike faith. It’s so easy to teach children, isn’t it? is just so easy to believe. Work with adults. Have you ever heard that most adults are set in their ways? Have you ever heard a phrase you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? What do you think that means? It means what most adults, and this is just the truth, and I’m included. I’ve already done a live most of my life.

Don’t try to tell me to do anything or change anything. I’m going to do what I’m going to do. This is me. You do whatever you want. I’ll do whatever the one. Just be friends and get off each other’s back. See there? But look what he says in verse 26, “‘Even so Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight. All things are delivered unto me of my Father. No man knoweth the Son but the Father. Neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son.

And he too, whomsoever the Son will reveal him. that last part and to whom the Son will reveal Him. Now you trusted Christ as your Savior, you have eternal life, but don’t you want Him to reveal Himself to you in a better way? And then after He says that you can’t do this unless the Son revealed and then in verse 28, come unto me and you ought to circle that the next word, all, all. Come to me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

So yeah, he can reveal himself to those that he chooses to reveal, but he says, it’s those that comes to him. If you come to Christ, and I’m not talking about just for salvation, I’m talking about, see, you trust Christ is your Savior and He gives you eternal life. But as a child of God, there’s a lot of things that God wants us to learn. Come into me all ye that labor and are heavy, and I will give you rest.

Take upon you my yoke, learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. But so many of God’s Most people are going to miss out on so much because the day will come when we realize we didn’t understand the time in which we lived. I wasted so much of my life. Or I thought I had so much more time to go and I didn’t.

And I wasn’t very wise. I were not perceptive. And I missed so many opportunities. while you can. Do what you can, where you are, with all that you have. And God said that he will bless you for it. And he’ll reveal himself to you. That’s worth it all. Look up here, this is you and me, this is sin. We all have sin on us. God loves us. And I hate our sin, but he loves us. And God says for us to pay for sin is eternal separation from God in a place called hell.

He loves us, wants us to go to heaven. heaven. To go to heaven we have to be perfect as righteous as God. None of us are perfect. None of us are righteous. We have all sinned and come short of God’s perfection. And God says you cannot save yourself. It’s not by our works that we do. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord God in the flesh. He came into the world because he loves us. He hates our sin because it separates us from him.

So Jesus Christ took the sin, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead, and said if And if you and I would believe He did it for us, He would give us a free gift of our lasting life and we get to go to heaven, oh, what Christ did for us. No doubt there’s people watching that don’t realize the importance of the gospel. If they don’t trust Christ as their Savior to realize what an opportunity they missed.

To think that to be in a literal fire burning hell for all eternity and they could have taken advantage of that opportunity. And all they had to do was to believe Christ died and pay for their sins and trust him as their Savior. All they had to do is believe it. And they could have been saved and gone to heaven. The outcome would have been totally different. Just something so simple. And as a child of God to approach the Word of God with the attitude that I want the will of God for my life, whatever it might be, to take advantage of whatever God gives to me.

Let’s pray, shall we? And if you’re here tonight and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, or if you’re watching by internet, friend, right where you are, all that you have to do is the only thing you can do is believe that God so loved the world, that’s you, that He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. The hosts so ever believe it than Him should not perish but have everlasting life. If you’ll believe He did it for you, God would save you, give eternal life, and you would go to heaven on what Christ did for you.

Friend, I pray that you will. There is no other way. Believe on Him now. Our Father, we thank you so much for this time together, for the opportunity you’ve given us, the side of eternity to serve you. And Lord, it It is an opportunity, an opportunity to take advantage of. And I grew, I father, I fear that so many will pass by and never see it, never perceive because they’ve hardened their heart. We thank you for this church and all these people that make it possible to get the gospel to so many people.

And I want to hedge put around us and to protect us. I know the devil will do anything he can to hurt or to destroy this ministry. I pray, Lord, that whether they try to infiltrate or storm the gates, that you would protect us. And I’m trusting that you will give us good people to do a good work. In Christ’s name we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

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I preached this sermon tonight with a little fear and trembling. It deals with a subject of slander, gossiping, backbiting, and we all know that those are good things to talk about. And we all know that we’re not guilty of any of that, but we all know somebody who is. If there’s anything that I sometimes dislike speaking on, it’s, I don’t really like talking about the devil because I know the next day he gets me. And when I speak about how to have Christian unity, it seems like it always backfires.

I’ve tried sometimes, you know, I want all the married people to be so happy. So I speak on how husbands are supposed to treat their wives and the wives are supposed to treat their husbands and they just get into more fights. I think I’d have been better off just let it alone. It wasn’t as bad maybe. Somebody just said amen.

Okay. I like y’all too. But tonight I do want to speak a little bit on Christian unity. You said, no, that’s going to be boring. I can tell her that’s going to be a boring message. Well, maybe it will be. It’s probably not going to rank up there with my A game, you know. I want you You take your Bible and turn to the book of Matthew and chapter 18. Matthew chapter 18, the disciples came to Jesus and they had asked him a question, who’s going to be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?

Remember we talked about the kingdom of heaven several times. That period of time where the king from heaven sits up the kingdom upon the earth. That starts in the book of Daniel in chapter 2 where it says, in the days of these kings the God of heaven set up a kingdom upon the earth. This is the stone that comes down and smites the ten toes and sets up his kingdom. So we know it’s Christ. But who’s going to be the greatest?

Can you imagine the disciples getting together and hey, who’s going to be number one? And you know, it even caused some problems because mama, she said, she had two sons and she wanted one to set He said, on one side, one said on the other side. And Jesus told him, says, you don’t understand quite how this works. You see, it’s not so much as I just want to point somebody to do. He says, it’s because of what you do.

It’s your faithfulness. That God wants to reward your faithfulness. But he says, a man in order to be great in the kingdom of God or in the kingdom of heaven, it has to be like a little child. So he brought a little child and said him there in the midst and you’ll see there in verse excuse me verse two, and Jesus called a little child unto him and said him in the midst of them and said, barely I sinned you, except you be converted and become as little children you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child the same as greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And then he talks about don’t offend one of these little ones. Woe to the offender who offends. So this is a sermon I guess you could say the offender and the offended. Now you and I, if we live long enough, we know it’s only a matter of time before we offend someone or someone offends us. It’s the world in which we live because we’re sinners and we have expectations and we really don’t like people offending us.

You know, getting on our case, saying things we don’t like, jumping in front of us in their car. You know, when I’m boogin’ down a road and then here comes Uncle George and he pulls right in front of you. And you’re goin’ 19, he pulls out and he’s goin’ 10. And you wanna just push him on off the road. But we all get offended by somethin’. Now, if you come to this church long enough, let me tell you before it happens so that you’ll know that when it happens, I told you so and you’re not supposed to let it bother you, but you’re going to let it bother you anyway, but I still got to tell you.

I’m going to offend you. Sooner or later I will hurt your feelings because you’ll think the preacher shouldn’t have said that because I talk a lot. Well, I do. Every time you see me, I’m talking or eating, but I talk a lot. And when you talk a lot, you’re going to say something that maybe you shouldn’t have said. And if I listen to you long enough, you’re going to say something that offends me because you’re not going to always do what I tell you to do that I know you should do and you’re not going to do it anyway.

Do you know there’s people that probably come to church and it doesn’t matter what I teach? They will not move. Their favorite song in the Bible is, I shall not be, I shall not be moved and you’re not going to move them. the preacher gets offended sometimes too. And the people get offended. We hurt each other’s feelings. If you’ve been married for any length of time, it’s only a matter of time before you offend each other. It doesn’t matter, well we’re just so sweet.

We’ll never hurt each other’s feelings. There you will. And the same thing with children and the adults. But what I want you to see here is something that God says how to solve a problem. And most times we don’t really want to solve the problem the way that we should. I want you to look there in verse 15, verse 15, he says, Moreover, if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell everybody you can. Put it in the church bulletin, announce it on radio, but make sure everybody knows what he did to you.

Is that what it says? No, see, it doesn’t say that. There are some things that God says that we should not do. So he says, if thy brother, now it could be somebody in your own household, maybe he’s talking about a brother in the church, somebody in the same family, the family of God. But whatever it does say, it does say, if thy brother shall trespass against the go and tell him his fault between the and Him alone. If He shall hear thee thou hast gained thy brother.”

Now there’s several things to mention here and one is if your brother says or does something that offends you. There is a statement here that says go to Him, go to the individual and try to make it right. And you’re to keep in mind that in the verses right before this, he gave an illustration about the sheep that had gone astray. And we are all like sheep and we all go astray. We all don’t always do everything right. And so there’s some problems that we have.

So in trying to understand what does God want me to do and how to solve a problem because it’s only a matter of time, like I said, that we will offend each other. It says, go to to Him. Now going to an offending brother to restore Him is one of God’s greatest tests of genuine love. Do you really love the person that offends you? So you’re always going to be tested. So let’s pretend that somebody does offend you whoever it may be.

That is a test of do you love the person who just wronged you. You start right there. Now if you love the person, how should you respond to someone that you love? You get out of a hangerineed vazooka You want to kill them? No if it’s somebody you love you treat them differently than somebody you hate So from a Christian point of view God says Love the whole world Love everyone Now I can even love a Muslim, but I don’t have to love the ways of a Muslim.

I can love every center, but not as ways. And I’m supposed to still try to do what is right by the individual, try to love them to the Lord, try to get him to trust Christ’s Savior. Now, I want you to take your Bible and just look at this word in the book of Proverbs in chapter 15. Proverbs chapter 15. And don’t lose your place in Proverbs because I got a few verses that I want to show you from there and that you’ll be going back to it.

But first of all, and this is something that I’m still working on. I haven’t got this down to a science yet. Now you may have it all worked out and nothing bothers you anymore. But look what he says in verse 1. A soft answer turneth away wrath. A soft answer turneth away wrath. But grievous words do what? Stirth up anger. Now is it possible for you to stir up anger? I get so easily stirred up. And Then afterwards, I mad at myself because I do, because I know I’m not supposed to, and I do it anyway.

Now, that’s why I say, I’m glad that you’re not like me. You wouldn’t do that. But I sometimes have a weakness that I want everything to go my way. I wouldn’t get mad at anybody if they just do whatever I tell them to do. But not everybody does that. So you’ve got to live with it. Remember this, Satan’s program of defeat is to cut off the lines of communication. He doesn’t want you to try to solve the problem. He wants you to magnify the problem.

Always remember that. Someone wrongs you. Satan wants to cut off the lines of communication between you because he wants the problem to grow. try to believe that behind the scenes there is a devil who wants to destroy. And sometimes the devil is able to use Christians. I know that’s hard to believe. But sometimes God’s children do the devil’s work. You’re doing the work of the devil. But you may not even be aware that you’re doing it. And that’s what happens whenever we don’t do things God’s way.

easy sometimes to just pass judgment and figure out they’re wrong and then try to forget about it. But just trying to forget about it sometimes doesn’t solve a problem. God didn’t say that moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, just forget about it. They didn’t say that. It’s not just to forget about it. There’s sometimes you might need to solve a problem, try to find out what’s causing the problem. Why does someone feel that way about me or why did they do a certain certain thing?

But just to render a judgment in your mind and then not try to resolve it, sometime it can eat at you on the inside like cancer. And it can linger there. They talk about sometimes of cancer or even chickenpox. Once you’ve got the virus, it can linger in your body and they say it’s in remission and then you never know when it’s going to come out and get you. Well, I’ve experienced a little bit of that, but that’s what problems can do when they’re not resolved.

They hunt you and they eat it you like cancer and they can destroy you. Remember, a person’s life can be destroyed by things that happens to them on the outside, but also by things that happen to them on the inside. Sometimes it’s not what you’re eating that’s problem. It’s what’s eating you. That’s the problem. And a lot of people have things. They’re eating at them that they never get taken care of. And it needs to be done. It’s easy to tell someone else and genuine concern and hope that somebody else will take care of the problem.

Because it’s easy to take and mention a problem to somebody who is not a part of the problem or part of the solution. But you just hope they’ll solve the problem because you don’t want to solve the problem. It’s the most difficult thing in the world to go to the person that wrongs you and try to make it right because we don’t want to face that individual. We would rather not. But sometimes if a person doesn’t do it, the person who does the wrong has a tendency to do it again and again and again and again, because nobody calls them down on it.

Nobody confronts that individual in order to help that person, and they may not always be aware of what they’re saying or doing, and yet they could have had somebody because they love them and care about them. And in a loving manner, talk to them and pray for them and so forth, that could have really made a difference. And it’s also very easy to go to the person who’s wrong to end boldly go and tell them how wrong they are, but don’t listen to what they have to say.

Because you’ve already judged they were wrong and you’re going to get even for whatever. So, one of the first things that you have to do before you go to a person who has wronged you. Remember it says in the book of Matthew in chapter 7, and we may look at that in just a little bit, but it’s best to get the two before out of your own eye so that you can see clearly to get that little splinter out of somebody else’s eye.

In other words, God said, first of all, examine thyself, examine yourself. We can always spot the air and everybody else’s life, the faults, the flaws they have. We can always see the dirt in everybody else’s life. But very seldom do we turn the spotlight around and look at ourselves and see what we need to do or correct and how to solve that problem. In the book of Romans in chapter 2 and verse 1 to verse 7, where it talks about ye that condemn others and judge others, do us thou not the same thing?

Are you guilty of doing to others what somebody did to you? And you’re offended by that. But you do the same thing to everybody else. Sometimes God will allow things to happen to you because He wants to reveal to you what’s wrong in your own life. And God wants you to examine yourself because when you go to help somebody else see the air of their way, they just might tell you about the era of your ways. And this is why we’re afraid to go to somebody because if you ever heard somebody say, before you tell me about what I need to do, you need to clean up your own backyard.

What do they mean by that? It means you’ve got faults too. So instead of you trying to correct me, why don’t you go straight not your own life? Do they have a point? They might have a point. And so we’re sometimes easily offended by the very thing that we’re guilty of doing to other people. Well, this is why we first of all, we do that. And in the book of 1st Samuel in chapter 12 and verse 23, it talks about did you pray about this?

Did you pray about it? Did you pray about what they did, or about what you understood? Did you pray about your feelings, about how you received it? What did it do to you emotionally? What did it do to you spiritually? How is it affecting you? Is it making you worse than you were before? Or is it making you wiser? I had to tell this to several people because they had allowed themselves to be hurt by what somebody said. And so they were not going to keep serving the Lord and doing right because they were so hurt.

And I says, serving the Lord means you have to serve the Lord as though you have never been hurt. You cannot allow all the people in the world all the wrong that they do to so hurt you that you stop loving people, that you’re afraid to go out on the limb because you don’t want to be hurting you more. If that was the case, I would have to stop being the pastor. Because see, over the years, 40-something years that I’ve been preaching, you have no idea how many hours, weeks, years that I have put in the people and have them turn on me and knife me in the back.

and try to destroy me and my ministry. And I’ve done them no wrong, except I love them. I try to, I want them to Christ and teach them to serve the Lord, challenge them to serve the Lord, and teach them enough Bible where they can challenge you on it. And then tell you what you’re doing, it’s wrong. And what you ought to do, and just rake you over the coals, and as the pastor many times, the pastor can’t say anything.

The pastor can’t do anything to stop it. And even if he goes to the person and you try to get it settled correctly, people can say things and plant seeds in people’s minds that you can’t get out of their mind. The seeds are there for the rest of your life. They don’t have to be true. Somebody can say something about you to somebody else and it not be true but they’ll never come to you and they’ll believe it for the rest of their life.

But they never got it resolved. And it can be a terrible thing. It’s a wicked thing to do. So this is why you need to be very, very careful. You should always examine and say, now, have I been the kind of an example that I’m supposed to be? What kind of an example am I? What if I said or what have I done that would bring the criticism that comes to me? Maybe there’s something that we do. Sometimes we don’t always see ourselves the way we really are.

And sometimes we respond in such a way and we answer in such a way that it’s kind of hurting, sharp words. But we didn’t see it that way because we didn’t mean it that way, but it still come across that way. Sometimes whenever we let people become the interpreter of what we mean because we’re not clear, you can’t blame the interpreter for what he interpreted. What his understanding was, because we were not clear ourselves, I want you to take your Bible look into the book of Galatians, the book of Galatians in chapter 6.

Galatians in chapter 6, I want you to look there in verse 1. Galatians 6 and verse 1, and it says, brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fall, is it what’s the fall? A Christian walking in the flesh from the previous chapter. So if you see a brother walk in the flesh, and you see a man walking in the flesh from the previous chapter. So if you see a brother walking in the flesh and he brings what works of the flesh, well then you that are spiritual are walking in the spirit.

Remember in chapter 5 verse 16, walk in the spirit, you’re not going to feel the lust of the flesh. Okay, if you see a Christian that is walking in the flesh, what do you do about it? You will, number one, draw attention to that person. Make sure everybody knows that they’re walking in the flesh. And if they fall, you walk up and put your foot on their head and push them down into the mud and make them cry uncle.

And let them know you saw every, we know one of the best ways I think of Christians to live. One eye and one ear. Don’t see everything and don’t hear everything. In working with teenagers, I had to develop that. Because at first I saw everything they did wrong. And I knew what I expected of them. And I wanted so much for these kids, but they can’t see what I want for them. Their blind is a bat. And everything that they said, everything they did, man, I could so criticize everything.

And I could see every area of flesh. And they just revel in it. And I wanted them to be so spiritually minded. I wanted them to be so godly. And they were so worldly. Boy, I had a problem. And I realized, see what one eye and hear would one ear. Because I would become so bitter and so critical at them, because they disappointed me over and over again, because I wanted so much of them. Don’t they see what I want for them?

No. Don’t they care? No. Don’t they care about me and my feelings, like I care about them? No. And a lot of people, they don’t care what you think. They don’t care how you live. Most of them just leave me alone and let me do my thing. Don’t you know this is the 21st century. This is everybody do whatever makes you happy. Sensory. And yet you love them. But you also got to realize that with people you have to be patient.

If people see fault in me, don’t you think I see a few in you? No, I don’t see anything wrong with y’all. You all little darlings? You all the perfect little angels you are? And somebody says, thank you. Somebody’s getting the wrong message here. But look what he says here. Yee, which are spiritual. Restore such a one in the spirit of migness considering thyself lest thou also be tempted. In other words, except for the grace of God, it could be you.

and be careful how you judge somebody because you know it might come back home to roost. If you want to receive mercy then you need to show mercy. If you want a little grace from people then maybe you need to show a little grace to people. If you want to receive a little forgiveness maybe you need to give a little forgiveness. You know the Bible says you reap what you what you sow. You sow meanness you might reap meanness but if you sow some kindness you might reap a little kindness and a soft answer turneth away wrath.

For example, it’s so easy between boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife. Say something bad and if that person comes back bad, boy you could get at it real quick. But if the answer was a real soft voice, he kind of deflates you because you know that’s what I should have done. Especially when you’re supposed to know better and we fail. We mess up. In Matthew chapter 7 verse 3 and 5 where it talks about realizing what you’re doing and how you’re saying these things.

Look over there very quickly in Matthew chapter 7. Matthew and chapter 7 and look there in verse 3. Verse 3 and why beholdest thou the moat that is in thy brother’s eye but consider if not the beam that is in thine own eye. Or how will thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the moat out of thine eye and behold a beam is in thine own eye. Thou hypocrite first cast out the beam out of thine own eye and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the moat out of thy brother’s eye.

See, it didn’t say you couldn’t see the moat. It didn’t say that you can’t help the moat out of his eye. It just says, make sure you get the two before out of yours first. That’s why I said, be careful that you judge, that you be not judged. In other words, so that when you try to correct somebody, they’re going to try to correct you back. So, first of all, examine your own life. Is there something that is in my life that could hinder someone from being the way they ought to be?

Could they stumble over my pride, my arrogance? Because you see, we don’t always see ourselves the way we are, but we sure can dissect other people very easily. And we can see all their faults and all of their flaws. You see, whenever you go and tell him his fault to him alone, it’s got several good points to bring out. It assures that you’re loyal because you went to the person, because you want to resolve the problem. You’re not condemning and you’re coming as a learner.

Or is there something that I’ve said or done that caused you to react toward me this way or for you to say what you said? Have you ever said these words? I didn’t mean that. You said something and somebody took it and they got hurt because of it. And then later on you find it, you say, I didn’t mean that. I have said a lot of them. I didn’t mean that. I didn’t say it the right way. You can say things with a certain tone or say something and you get a word left out that can change the whole meaning of it.

as you get a little bit older like I am. And I have a hearing aid in this year, and I got another one for this one, but I can’t stand it with both of them in there because they just talked back and forth and I can’t understand anything. And sometimes I can’t hear the words, and then when I can hear the words, I can’t discern what the words are. And I was sitting talking with somebody today, and I could not hear what they were saying.

And it’s very, very difficult. I just hope that people don’t get offended because of it, Or sometimes you may talk to me and I give you an answer that clean off the books. It has nothing to do with what you asked. Because what you said and what I heard are not even in the same room. And all I can say is, I’m sorry about that, but I can’t improve that. I don’t know how to improve that. I’ve asked people over and over again sometime that says, huh?

What? And sometimes it gets to be a joke. And sometimes I just figured, I don’t guess I really need to know what they said. And if I gave an answer and nobody said anything strange, I guess it was the right one. Whatever the question was, I don’t know. But I know that I’ve lived long enough, and so have you, that sometimes we say something but we don’t mean that. Or we didn’t mean for people to take it in the wrong way.

And so sometimes it happens and people get offended. But when somebody comes to you, how they do it is so important. And so that’s why you need to understand there’s things about attitudes that you have. The attitude by which you can be confronted. Can somebody confront you with a problem without you falling apart? Without you getting mad and coming and glued on the person. and listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, and that today’s concluding message of this teaching will be a blessing to you and your family. You should always examine, see, now, have I been the kind of an example that I’m supposed to be? What kind of an example am I? What if I said or what have I done that would bring the criticism that comes to me? Maybe there’s something that we do. Sometimes we don’t always see ourselves the way we really are.

And sometimes we respond in such a way and we answer in such a way that is kind of hurting, sharp words. But we didn’t see it that way because we didn’t mean it that way, but it still come across that way. Sometimes whenever we let people become the interpreter of what we mean because we’re not clear, you can’t blame the interpreter for what he interpreted. What his understanding was because we were not clear ourselves. I want you to take your Bible look into the book of Galatians.

The book of Galatians in chapter 6. Galatians in chapter six, I want you to look there in verse one. Galatians six and verse one. And it says brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fall, is it what’s the fall? A Christian walking in the flesh from the previous chapter. So if you see a brother walking in the flesh and he’s bringing both the works of the flesh, well then you that are spiritual are walking in the spirit. in chapter 5 verse 16 walk in the spirit and not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Okay, if you see a Christian that is walking in the flesh. What do you do about it? You, well, number one, draw attention to that person. Make sure everybody knows that they’re walking in the flesh. And if they fall, you walk up and put your foot on their head and push them down into the mud and make them cry uncle. And let them know you saw every, we know one of the best ways I think of Christians to live one eye and one ear.

Don’t see everything and don’t hear everything. And working with teenagers, I had to develop that. Because at first I saw everything they did wrong and I knew what I expected of them and I wanted so much for these kids but they can’t see what I want for them. Their blind is a bat and everything that they said everything they did. Man, I could so criticize everything. And I could see every area of flesh and they just revel in it.

And I wanted to be so spiritually minded. I wanted them to be so godly. And they were so worldly. Boy, I had a problem. And I realized, see what one eye and hear would one ear. Because I would become so bitter and so critical at them because they disappointed me over and over again because I wanted so much. Don’t they see what I want for them? No. Don’t they care? No. Don’t they care about me and my feelings like I care about them?

No. And a lot of people, they don’t care what you think. They don’t care how you live. Most of them just leave me alone and let me do my thing. Don’t you know this is the 21st century. This is everybody do whatever makes you happy? Century. And yet you love them. But you also got to realize that with people you have to be patient. If people see fault in me, don’t you think I see a few in you? No, I don’t see anything wrong with y’all.

Y’all little darlings, y’all the perfect little angels you are. And somebody says thank you. Somebody’s getting the wrong message here. But look what he says here. Yee, which are spiritual. Restore such a one in the spirit of migness, considering thyself lest thou also be tempted.” In other words, except for the grace of God, it could be you. And be careful how you judge somebody because, you know, it might come back home to roost. If you want to receive mercy, then you need to show mercy.

If you want a little grace from people, then maybe you need to show a little grace to people. If you want to receive a little forgiveness, maybe you need to give a little forgiveness. You know, the Bible says you reap what you… what you sow. You sow meanness. You might reap meanness. But if you sow some kindness, you might reap a little kindness. and a soft answer turneth away wrath. For example, it’s so easy between boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife.

Say something bad and if that person comes back bad boy you could get at it real quick. But if the answer was a real soft voice, it kind of deflates you because you know that’s what I should have done. Especially when you’re supposed to know better and we fail, we mess up. In Matthew chapter 7 and verse 3 and 5, where it talks about realizing what you’re doing and how you’re saying these things, look over there very quickly in Matthew chapter 7.

Matthew and chapter 7, and look there in verse 3, verse 3, and why beholdest thou the that is in thy brother’s eye, but consider if not the beam that is in thine own eye, or how will thou say to thy brother, let me pull out the moat out of thine eye and behold a beam is in thine own eye. Thou hypocrite first cast out the beam out of thine own eye and then thou shall see clearly to cast out the moat out of thy brother’s eye.

See it didn’t say you couldn’t see the moat. It It didn’t say that you can’t help the mode out of his eye. It just says, make sure you get the two before out of yours first. That’s why I said, because of that you judge, that you be not judged. In other words, so that when you try to correct somebody, they’re going to try to correct you back. So first of all, examine your own life. Is there something that is in my life that could hinder someone from being the way they ought to be?

Could they stumble over my pride, my arrogance? Because you see, we don’t always see ourselves the way we are, but we sure can dissect other people very easily. And we can see all their faults and all their flaws. You see, whenever you go and tell him his fault to him alone, it’s got several good points to bring up. It assures that you’re loyal because you went to the person, because you want to resolve the problem. You’re not condemning and you’re coming as a learner.

Or is there something that I’ve said or done that caused you to react toward me this way or for you to say what you said? Have you ever said these words? I didn’t mean that. You said something and somebody took it and they got hurt because and then later on you find out, you said, I didn’t mean that. I have said a lot of them. I didn’t mean that. I didn’t say it the right way. You can say things with a certain tone or say something and you get a word left out that can and change the whole meaning of it.

As you get a little bit older, like I am, and I have a hearing aid in this year, and I got another one for this one, but I can’t stand it with both of them in there because they just talked back and forth and I can’t understand anything. And sometimes I can’t hear the words, and then when I can hear the words, I can’t discern what the words are. And I was sitting talking with somebody today, and I could not hear what they were saying.

And it’s very, very difficult. I just hope that people don’t get offended because of it. Or sometimes you may talk to me and I give you an answer that clean off the books. Has nothing to do with what you asked. Because what you said and what I heard are not even in the same room. And all I can say is I’m sorry about that, but I can’t improve that. I don’t know how to improve that. I’ve asked people over and over again sometimes I says, huh, what?

And sometimes it gets to be a joke. And sometimes I just figured, I don’t guess I really need to know what they said. And if I gave an answer and nobody said anything strange, I guess it was the right one. Whatever the question was, I don’t know. But I know that I’ve lived long enough, and so have you, that sometimes we say something but we don’t mean that. Or we didn’t mean for people to take it in the wrong way.

And so sometimes it happens and people get offended. But when somebody comes to you, how they do it is so important. And so that’s why you need to understand there’s things about attitudes that you have. The attitude by which you can be confronted. Can somebody confront you with a problem without you falling apart? Without you getting mad and coming and glued on the person. For example, can the husband talk to the wife or the wife talk to the husband?

Can you talk to your kids? talk people on your job. Can you talk people in the church? But they’re afraid to talk to you because they think you’re going to explode. That’s not right. You don’t need to explode. People should be able to come to you, and if they’re wrong in whatever they said, and if they come to you and they’re wrong in the way they do it, you can still be kind to one another. Because, see, some people are having a hard time.

Some people that takes every bit of courage in the world to come and see somebody. And if somebody comes to you and they want to correct you on something. Now, you and I know that we’re perfect and we don’t mess up. But some people don’t see us the way we really are and they think we did something wrong. Let them be able to say to you whatever it is they need to say without you jumping on top of them and trying to stop them and correct them.

Have you ever seen somebody you start talking to them and before you can finish what you’re saying they already know what you’re going to say, come up with an answer and give you three solutions. And then you have to tell them, that wasn’t my problem. Because sometimes we don’t want to listen to everything. We got ears. We’re supposed to listen. God gave us one mouth and two ears. It means He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.

And sometimes we don’t want to do that. But we should do that. So anyway, you and I are supposed to come to a person as though we’re trying and seeking to learn. What was the one main ingredient between what Christ says about His disciples and how you would know that you are my disciples indeed is that you what? Love one another. So regardless of what the problem may be, how you accept criticism is very important. So we ought to be able to give it and receive it and believe that the purpose is for constructive criticism, not destructive.

If your purpose in trying to bring something to light is because your goal is wanting to destroy someone, I don’t believe that that’s a good thing to do. Now, a man who is a man of character, I do not believe you should try to destroy a man of character, but I do believe you ought to have the right to describe a man’s character because that’s the way he is. And there’s even the Bible, Paul talked about certain individuals and gave their name and said how they helped destroy people’s faith because that’s what they were doing, a public thing known.

Another sermon for another time. Look there in Proverbs chapter 16 and look there in verse 28 verse 28, a forward man soeth strife and a whisper separated chief friends. If you want to see a lot of damage done it’s with people who just plant little seeds of questions and doubts and other people’s minds about somebody that has to be very careful that you do this. Otherwise you can destroy somebody, but you say, well, that’s not my purpose and my goal.

Okay, but make sure that you only tell somebody who is part of the solution to a problem. There would be no reason for me to share things with somebody unless they are part of the solution to a problem. Or unless you want me to go with you to help solve a problem. But the real issue is sometimes a person is scared to death to confront somebody about a particular problem if they have hurt them or offended them because they’re afraid of being hurt and offended even more.

And sometimes they’re afraid of confronting a person because they don’t know how that person’s going to come across. Don’t know if they’re going to get mad or become angry and furious or what they’re going to do. And so to avoid it they just avoid the thing. But if possible, like God says in his word in the book of Romans in chapter 12 that if possible live peaceably with all men, it’s not always possible to live peaceably with everybody. Though I believe that should be our goal in what we should try to do.

But look in Proverbs 25 you’re right there, Proverbs chapter 25, Proverbs 25 and verse 9. In verse 9 says, debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself and discover not a secret to another. Sometimes we know that if somebody tells us things in confidence, it should be in confidence and it’s not something that you necessarily have to go around and reveal that to other people. But sometimes people are trying to find more dirt and they’re trying to discover things And so they can become real kind and sweet, but they’re really looking for dirt on somebody.

Be careful that you don’t allow somebody to dump their trash under your piece of property. In other words, if you’re driving down the highway and you look over there and they got a beautiful lawn, you drive down a little bit further and you got trash all over the lawn. But people have driven by and just dumped their garbage there. But on the one piece of property, it’s nice and clean and everybody respects that. Chances are somebody went down the road and they had some trash and they just dumped it out.

But they left it there. Somebody else comes down the road and they got some trash too andgently you can’t put it back there but you can put it up here. This is acceptable. So they dumped some more trash there. Did you know that yard is your, your brain up here, it’s your mind, that’s your little piece of territory. And as we live our life, we allow people to dump their trash into our minds. And when you feed upon garbage, your mind will become garbage.

You will have germs and disease of all kinds because of garbage. And you will not be a healthy individual. So the best thing you do is when people to gossip to you, remember they will also gossip about you. The only difference between a buzzard and a gossip is one devours you while you’re alive and the other one eats you while you’re dead. But they want to devour you. And the Bible talks about do not devour one another, where you’re just trying to totally destroy another individual.

God’s people are supposed to love one another, care about one another, pray for one another, exhort one another. But you will not find where it says Christians destroy one another, hate one another, be mean one to another, but you’ll find it be tender-hearted, kind one to another. Am I lying to you or am I telling you the truth? So you’ve got to watch that you don’t allow people just to dump their garbage in your yard and you have to take a strong stand because of that.

Now, he makes the statement here in verse 9 and discover not a secret to another. It’s just some things that you’re not supposed to do. But anyway, the other thing is in James chapter 3 the whole chapter talks about the tongue and then it talks about let your speech be seasoned with salt. So how do you season your words with salt? Well before you always carry a little bottle of salt around with you. Stick out your tongue and put salt on your tongue so that when you talk you can talk and just beat the things with salt and then that way it won’t be as offensive.

But it means to flavor your words. Don’t be just hard and cold. You may be right. You may be telling the truth but the way we do it isn’t always the sweetest way. We could said sometime the same thing but said it with a sweeter tone. I’m always having to work on the tone of my voice. God gave me a very strong voice and I know that. I am very boom and yet inwardly I’m meek as a lamb. I’m sweet and kind and y’all believe everything I’m saying and I wouldn’t hurt anybody for anything in the world.

Really? But sometimes we just don’t always say and do the the things that we are supposed to do. And sometimes we just fail. We just fall completely apart. Let me give you a couple of other things that I want to mention to you very quickly. What would happen if we actually followed Matthew 18? Well, they say that slander is telling the truth with a design to hurt. Gossip is sharing detrimental information with those who are not part of the problem or part of the solution.

But gossip and slander would cease. if we would commit ourselves to only giving good reports about each other. And Christians will be giving and receiving loving corrections which will edify each other. If you have to confront somebody, pray first, and you want that person know that look, I love you and I really appreciate you. And I just wanna let you know, I appreciate you sharing with me what you said. And I will correct that as much as I possibly can.

And see, you may not always agree with their view, but there’s some things that you could just let them know that look, I will seriously think about what you said. And I can see that I could have said it a better way. And it learned to be able to accept constructive criticism and take it that way, even though they didn’t say it the right way. But realizing that God, you’ve often made statements like, God, I want you to speak to me, I want you to lead me, I want you to guide me, I want you to correct me, I want you to reveal if there’s any wicked way in me.

And here comes 15 people and they all tell you the same thing. You say, well Lord, that’s not what I meant. Sometimes God may speak to you through somebody else who has the nerve to hurt you. And it might hurt you, but you might need to correct the problem, so be willing to do that. And it will also build loyalty and security, because you know that everybody’s committed to giving a good report about you. I would like to believe that everybody in this whole church loved me enough that you wouldn’t say anything against me to nobody.

Now is that wrong for me to want that or to desire that? But shouldn’t I have, you think the same thing that my pastor loves me enough that he’s not going to try to destroy me? You realize I try to do everything I possibly can. I don’t care the littlest kid to the old, to try to open up doors of opportunities for y’all to serve and do whatever y’all can do for the Lord. True. In ranch last night, even though we had some little kids there, I still wanted them little kids to understand.

Look, if God can use Yankee, God can use anybody. So y’all see me now, smooth and polished. But you never saw me when I was a teenager, praise the Lord. But I want the little kids to know, look, I might be the pastor, pastor, but I love you and I want the best for you. This ranch meeting here is designed because we want to give you a chance, a place that you can serve the Lord. I’m so glad they got somebody like Peter.

I want somebody to know that we got somebody that loves us and cares about us. I want those little kids in a Wanna, those kids in Sunday school. I want them to know anything that those people over them, they love them and they’re that help them. And even though we might see things in people’s lives that are not right, yeah, but we got things in ours too. We’re always needing to grow. Nobody has arrived. We still got a lot of work to do.

And it doesn’t matter if you’ve lived to be as old as Al. You still, you’re still going to make mistakes and you might even forget when your anniversary is. You can figure it all out. But look, I’ll bet you. I’ll bet you. She forgave him. Not yet. I’ll tell me. OK, so as the world turns, then anyway, as an individual, just in your own mind, you don’t have to make somebody else do anything. It’s just something that you do for yourself.

One is you don’t want to be guilty of just a gossiper, saying detrimental things about somebody for the purpose of destroying somebody. And to say things to somebody who can be a help to the problem, to solve the problem. And ask the Lord to give you the grace that you need to examine your own life so that you can have the strength and boldness that you need to maybe to help somebody else who has wronged you. And be forgiving, because the rest of that chapter in Matthew 18, it talks about, and the disciples asked that question, Lord, how many times should I forgive them?

Seven times? He said, 70 times seven. 490? It didn’t matter. Just forgive people and just keep moving ahead. And love one another as God says we should, because when you get right down to it, that is the Christian thing to do. That is the Christ thing. You know, people were not in the beginning called Christians. It was because in Antioch, they were first called Christians because they were of the Christ way, because of the way they lived. Their actions were like Christ.

They way they loved each other and the way they forgave one another and cared about each other. They lived like a Christian. Today, when we trust Christ as our Savior, everybody knows we’re, well, you’re a Christian when you get saved. Yum, in your name, but in your actions, you may not live like a Christian. So I just think we ought to live like Christians. Act like Christians. and God blesses for doing so. Look up here. So much easier to get this smaller wall of that on my pants.

The other night I was in Herkville. I couldn’t get my sand out. And I pull out that wall and I said, man, that thing is huge. And I knew that my sins were not that big. I mean, they’re this side, but they weren’t that other size. So I figured I’d just give that wall to Peter O’Mato. Now see, now he can get offended if that he wanted to. He can get offended. But see, sometimes you get an offended because he is your choice.

You don’t have to. You know, nobody can offend you unless you choose to do so. So sometimes you got to get the chips off your shoulders and don’t let little things hurt you. Let things kind of slide around a little bit. I can give people some room to maneuver. Don’t be so mean and so strict. Don’t be law. Have a little grace. Don’t that just sound like just plain old good sense? I think so. You’ll be happier if you do.

This is you and me. This is sin. We all have sin upon us and God loves us. Loves all love us, but He hates what we do wrong. And we’ve all sinned. We’ve all come short of God’s perfection. God says for us to pay for sin is eternal separation from God in hell. But He loves us and wants us to have eternal life and go to heaven when we die. And God says you can’t save yourself. So to go to heaven you have to be perfect no sin and nobody like that here.

So the Bible says you can’t save yourself by your deeds. This sin represents Jesus Christ, He is the Lord and God in the flesh. He came into the world because He loves us but He hates what we do wrong because it separates us from Him. So Christ took the sin, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead and said if we believe He did it for us, he put that payment to our account and we get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did.

By grace are you saved through faith, not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast. Let’s pray, shall we? If you’re here tonight and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, remember this, God does love you. He has paid for your sins. Yes, we all fail. We don’t always do the things that we know is right. God loves us anyway. But to go to heaven, you see, we have to be as righteous as God, and by our works we’ll never be.

This church cannot save you. Your good works, given money, all those things cannot save you. The only way you can get to heaven is to accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. So if you’re here tonight or if you’re watching by internet, I just want you to know that you can be saved from hell. God will give you eternal life and you’ll go to heaven whenever you die if you simply accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. And so if you’ll do that, God said he would save you and I’d like to know and I’d like to have prayer for you.

So a hedge bound nice close and no one looking around is there anyone else? So yes, I will trust Christ as my Savior tonight and preach our life for you to pray for me. We just sleep in it very quickly and put a rep back down. Say it one at all. Our Father, we thank You so much for this opportunity to talk to Your people about the subject of Christian unity, of how we’re supposed to solve some of our differences.

And Father, help us more than anything else, just to love each other and forgive each other and to do what’s right and realizing that we’re supposed to truly care about the lives other people and try to challenge and motivate them to do right. We just thank you so much for this time together. Thank you for these good people and Lord, just bless them. They’re going to have a hard week and just a lot of things. And we just pray your will to be done in Christ and we pray.

Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you are blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing tool free 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. To listen to today’s message again or to obtain a free download of any of our Bibleline programs, just go to our homepage at BibleLineMinistries.org and click on the Radio Broad If you are in the area, we welcome you to visit us.

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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s message will be a blessing to you and your family. We’ll take your Bible and turn to the book of Hebrews, the book of Hebrews. the book of Isaiah in just a little bit. But first of all, the book of Hebrews. Hebrews and chapter one, there’s things in this world, everything that you see with your naked eye is going to pass away. And these things are going to wax old.

The Bible says they wax old. I made the mistake of showing some of the teenagers or some of the young college kids, some of the pictures, I was trying to clean out one room called we’re going to have it to use for something. And I found some old pictures of ranch back in 1969 and 1970 and I show it to them and first thing that they look at it when they see that thing is says, hey you had hair.

Yes I had hair. But we’re waxing old and and and some of y’all that are young right now, you will too. But But there are some things that doesn’t age. And God says God remains the same yesterday, today, and forever. Jesus Christ stays the same. Look there in Hebrews chapter 1 now and notice this. And He says there in verse 10, And thou, Lord, in the beginning hath laid the foundation of the earth. And the heavens are the work of thy hands.

This refutes evolution. They shall perish. The earth will perish. Notice what he says. He says in verse 10, the works of by hand, verse 11, they shall perish, but thou remaineth, and they all shall wax old as death a garment. And it doesn’t matter how long you… you live. It doesn’t mean how well you live. It doesn’t mean how healthy you are sooner or later we’re all going to get old and die. Nobody wants to get old. We all wish we could just stay young looking but it’s just not the facts of life.

God says the world is waxing old. Even the heavens is getting old. Everything’s getting old but God and He is forever. Look everybody says, you know, in verse 11, they all shall wax old at the garment. And as a vester shall thou fold them up, they shall be changed. But thou, thou art the same, thy years shall not fail. So the Lord is not going to get old. The years won’t fail. He stays the same forever and ever and ever.

And the Lord says that he’s going to do what he has some ministering spirits, angels, guardian angels. Every one of us in this room have guardian angels, angels who watch after us. And it says, these are ministering spirits for those in the last part of verse 14, who shall be heirs of salvation. So we know we have eternal life. We’re going to be with the Lord in heaven. We have angels that watch after us. We have guardian angels. How do you like that?

You are somebody special. If The Lord didn’t protect you. Satan would kill every last one of us. But God is the one who spares our life. He can allow us to be taken home whenever he cheons. But we are in the hands of the Lord to know that, to believe that. Now take your Bible and turn to the book of Matthew, chapter four. And the Lord says this here in chapter four. He makes a statement in verse 12. Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, He departed into Galilee and leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast in the borders of Zebulon and Naphtulam, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet.

Now in just a moment we’re going to go to the book of Isaiah, the prophet, and see something that is said there. If you were just to sit down and read the book of Isaiah, you may not see this, but because you know that it is a fulfillment of a scripture and it’s quoted here when you go back to Isaiah, then you can look at the context in which you find it and you’ll find some other truths that you would not have seen had you not known that it was a prophecy concerning Christ.

So he says they’re in verse 15. The land of Zebulon and the land of Nepilon by the way of the sea beyond Jordan Galilee of the Gentiles. The people which sat in darkness saw great light. Now, we’re talking here in the book of Matthew about when Jesus Christ came on the scene. That people sat in darkness and people saw a great light. You see, Jesus Christ was the light of the world and that people are in darkness without Christ.

There’s something about the gospel that illuminates a person’s mind. The only way they can know anything about God is through the person of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the light of the world. It’s how that you can know the truth about who you are, where you came from, what you’re doing, where you’re going and how you can have eternal life. So it’s important. 16 again. The people would set in darkness all great light and to them which set in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

Talking about Jesus Christ is coming into the world and the world is dark and God sends this light into this dark world. And He is the only light. He says, I am the light of the world. And when Christ left, He says, ye are the light of the world. So all the people who trust Christ the Savior are like little light bulbs, and we are the light for the world to see God. And that’s why it’s so important, as the scripture says in Matthew, let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father, which is in heaven.

We often sing that song, this little light of mine, I’m going to let it what? I’m going to let it shine. Letting it shine means I’m going to tell people about Christ and and what he did for me. Now take your Bible and turn back to the book of Isaiah, Isaiah chapter 42. There’s a multitude of verses in here that I wish to have the time to cover from chapter 42 to chapter 52. But I do want you to see this because there’s many references to Jesus Christ in these scriptures.

Our desire should be is to be more about what God wants us to be than anything else in the world. There’s a lot of people that do not know Christ and we should be willing to tell them. Look there, first of all, in Isaiah chapter 41, look in verse 27, if you don’t have verse 27 on the line, I would recommend you underline this verse because it’s in verse 27, the first shall say to Zion, behold, behold them. And I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings, this one that’s gonna bring these good tidings is a reference toward Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ is going to come. Now chapter 42, God refers to Jesus Christ as a prophecy in the Old Testament, remember now, this is written over 700 years before Jesus Christ ever came. So God is telling that I have a son, I have a servant. When my son comes, my servant, my righteous branch, when he gets here, this is the way he’s going to be. So it’s all talking about Jesus Christ before he ever came. Now he tells us when he’s going to be born, how he’s going to be born, where he’s going to be born in Bethlehem, Africa, and how he’s going to be rejected in Isaiah 53, and what the people are going to do to him, what he’s going to do.

All these things are written hundreds and hundreds of years before Christ ever came into the world. Look what he says in verse 1 of chapter 42, Behold my servant, which is the reference toward Christ, whom I uphold mine elect in whom my soul delighted. I have put my spirit upon him. He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentile.” Now this is talking about Jesus Christ when he comes into the world. You see, God the Father is bragging upon his son.

He says, now of all the people in all the world and use the word fellows, he says, there’s nobody like my son. Nobody’s like this one. This one’s different. See, he didn’t have a sinful nature. He did nothing wrong. He did everything to please his father. He did everything that was right. He hated sin. Nobody liked this man. So God the Father brags upon a son. He says here in verse three things about him. A bruise reed shall he not break, and the smoking flak shall he not quench, he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

Looking verse 5, thus saith God the Lord. He that created the heavens, stretched them out, he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it, he that giveth bread unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein. I the Lord have called thee in righteousness. When he says, the Lord have called me. In other words, I’m talking about, I have called my son. Another scripture says, I called my son out of Egypt, but I called my son and I have something that I want my son to do.

And then he tells us how his son is going to be treated at all. But notice what he says there in the last part of verse six. He says, and we’ll keep the end, give thee for a covenant of the people for a, and you ought to underline this, a light to the Gentiles. This is a reference also mentioned in the book of Matthew in chapter four, verse seven, to open the blind eyes to bring out the prisoners from the prison and then that set in what?

Darkness out of the prison house. This is a reference to Jesus Christ because when you go over there to the book of Matthew and you read These scriptures it says this is that which was prophesied by the prophet Isaiah This is being fulfilled which said and talked about, I saw the people that said in darkness and behold a great light which is a reference toward Jesus Christ. So we know these verses here are talking about Jesus Christ when he comes into the world.

And he says there in verse eight, I am the Lord. This is my name, my glory will not give to another, neither my praise to another, grieve the image. So he goes in here and he talks about Jesus Christ who is going to be able to heal those that are death Those that are dumb look what he says in verse 18 Here ye death look you blind that you may see Who is blind but my servant or death is my messenger that I send in other words There’s people in the world that are deaf and dumb blind cannot see and God says I’m gonna do a work that you will not believe He goes on chapter 3 and he talks about how that he has took Israel, Israel, Jacob, and he says, I formed the I created thee, and I made you into a nation.

And he goes on through and he says everything that he has done for his people. You can take Israel instead of the site and go back and refer every bit of it to his son, the Jesus Christ, his son. And he did all of this for his son and through his son. It’s an awesome thing. Look in verse four of chapter 43 verse three tells you that he’s talking about the Holy one of Israel Not God the Father, but the one that’s going to be born the Savior’s referring to Christ verse four since thou was precious in my sight Remember he looks over the banister of heaven and says this is my beloved son and who I am well Please Christ was precious in the eyes of the father nobody like this son And he says, now, if you do this for me, I am going to do something for you.

Now, when you read the second Psalm and it makes the statement, I will give the inheritance, the heathen for thy inheritance. In other words, that was a promise that God had made to the Son. If you do this for me, I’m going to give you the heathen as an inheritance. So he says, you’re in verse four, since thy was precious in my sight, thy has been honorable and I have loved therefore will I give men for thee and people for thy what?

You give me your life and I’m going to give you people in return for it.” You’ll see the same thing mentioned when you studied the book of Isaiah chapter 53 when he says, then he shall see his seed. There’s going to be results on down the line. He is the kernel of corn that is planted into the ground that dies and then more come from it. It’s an awesome thing when you read the whole chapters and read all this together.

But anyway, he says, you’re in chapter 44. Look at verse six. Isaiah chapter 44 verse six, thus saith the Lord the king of Israel and his redeemer, the Lord of hosts, I am the first, I am the last beside me, there is no God, there is no other God beside Jesus Christ. Down in verse eight, the last part of the says, is there a God beside me? I know now God, I don’t know of any other God, there’s nobody but me.

Now, turn on over there to Isaiah chapter In chapter 45 he talks about how in verse 11, thus saith the Lord L.O.R.D. the Holy One of Israel and his Maker. So we’re talking about that God is the one who gave his Son. Mary prepared the child, the flesh, but the Son was given, Isaiah chapter 9 and verse 6. He said in verse 12, I have made the earth, created man upon it. I even my hands have stretched out the heaven and all the hosts have I commanded him.

He said, I have done all these wonderful, wonderful things. So he tells the people, he says, seek me, command you me and behold what I will do and show you and all these things. Look at in verse 22, it’s a reference toward Christ coming, making a payment for sin and being a light to the people that are in darkness. In verse 22, look unto me and be Yesaved all the ends of the earth, for I am God there is none else, there is no other God.

And he also makes a statement in the book of Philippians in chapter 2 when he makes a statement he says, and he was highly exalted and given a name which is above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord to the glory of God the Father. Well that’s mentioned right there, see in verse 23, say verse 23, I have sworn by myself the word has gone out of my mouth and righteous and shall not return.

They that unto me every knee shall bow every tongue shall swear. This is what it’s talking about. You wouldn’t know these verses are referring to Jesus Christ, but when you go to New Testament and under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit it says this is referring to that. This is referring to that. This is referring to that. So when you go back and you read it’s a good night. There’s a picture of Jesus Christ on all these pages. This tells you about the sky and of what God thinks about His Son.

This is awesome stuff and this is the attitude that you and I ought to have about Jesus Christ Look what he says in verse 9 of chapter 46 Remember the form of things of old or I am God there is none else. I am God There is none else like me declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times of things that are not yet done Saying my counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure In other words I’m going to do all the things that I want to do and he said I foretold all these things in advance And the reason was because he says, I think I want you to see this.

Look very quickly in chapter 48 in verse 3. He said, I declare the former things from the beginning. They went forth and it happened. Suddenly, just like I said it would. He says, because thou art hard headed and thy neck as an iron senior. See what it says in verse 3. I have declared the former things from the beginning. They went forth out of my mouth. I showed them. I did them. Suddenly they came to pass because I knew that thou art obstinate And thy neck is an iron senior and thy brow brass.

He said, I have declared from the very beginning before it ever happened. I’m gonna tell you what’s gonna happen. So you have a record in the word of God of things that are going to take place before it ever happens. That’s why the Old Testament was written. That’s why there’s hundreds of years in between these things so that no man can make it happen. And God hit everything just right on schedule. Everything’s right. And Jesus Christ came the first time just like He said.

He’s gonna come back again, just like He said He would. Look there in chapter 48, looking verse 16. Look at verse 16. Verse 16 says, come ye near unto me, hear ye this, I have not spoken in secret from the beginning, from the time that it was, there am I, and now the Lord God, one, and his spirit, too, hath sent me three. God the Father and the God, the Holy Spirit, sent the third person of the Trinity. It’s awesome, read it, it’s right there.

There’s the Trinity right there in that one verse. And God brags upon his son and all that his son has done and what’s going to take place. And he says in verse two calls him a Paul is shaft. And in verse three talks him out, he is my servant in whom I will be glorified. In verse five he talks about him being the servant. In verse six he talks about him being a servant. But look in verse six, I want you to see this in chapter 49.

And he said, it is a light thing that thou should be my servant. To raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved of Israel, I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles. You think it’s talking about somebody else? No, it’s talking about Jesus Christ. I will give him to be a light that thou mayest be my salvation unto the ends of the earth. This is a reference to Jesus Christ. Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his holy one Christ, to whom man despises to him to whom the nations abhorrent.

And the people of the world despise the very one that God is so pleased with. But this is a reference to Jesus Christ. Turn your page. If you got a host of the reference Bible, chapter 50 talks about the humiliation that’s going to happen to Jesus Christ. It says in the first one, He says, does Seth the Lord? He says, where is the bill of your mother’s divorce? Who might put away, in other words, like here’s God the Father and God took Israel and she is the wife, she’s the woman.

So God had a wife and the wife is Israel, but because Israel went a horn after other gods and didn’t become obedient unto her own husband, so God gave her a writing of divorce. But God divorced his wife. But if that happens, then God can’t go marry somebody else. God has to wait. So the Bible says that God the Father and the wife, well they had a son. And who is this son? Jesus Christ. God used Israel, the wife, to have a son and brought him into the world.

But the wife rejected her son. Wanting nothing to do with her son. Turned against her own child. rejected her child. But God the Father loved his son and Israel the wife rejected the son. So the Bible says now God is looking for a wife for his son. Well where’s he gonna find a wife? Well Israel didn’t want to, so God began among the Gentiles. And as the story is told every individual believing Gentile all over the world that we leave on Christ and trust me Savior, they will form the bride of Christ, the bride for Christ.

So God is calling out from among the world, believers as a bride for His Son. Now this is the story that’s told in the Old Testament and it’s going to happen just like God said. But you see when he gave this bill in the enforcement and here’s the nation Israel who needs to be redeemed when Jesus came says was there no man isn’t there anybody else that can redeem you anybody else can can pay for the sin because they had to have a redeemer you read the story of Ruth about Boaz and about the kinsman redeemer somebody that would be willing to to pay the price and when Christ came was there anybody else that’s willing to redeem you who else is willing to redeem the human race.

Nobody could. Nobody had the price. So God says, my son will do it. My son is willing to give his life and to redeem. That’s why as you read down through these scriptures, he’s talking about being a redeemer and how he says, my son is not going to be rebellious. Look down there in verse 5. The Lord God hath opened my ear and I was not rebellious, neither turn turned away back. Now this is a reference to Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ came to where He says, my ear hath thou opened. You see what He means by that? We see when a person became a voluntary love slave of God. It was like having their ear burned through with a big old hole because in the days of Israel when they had a servant or a slave and that person had served their time and was free to leave if they chose voluntarily to be a bond slave of the master because they liked the way they were being treated.

They wanted to do that. They could voluntarily be a slave for the rest of their life. And they would take him and put up against a post and they would take a hot iron and they would bore a hole through their ear and they would open up their ear. And he said, my ear has now opened because I chose to be a voluntary love slave of God my heavenly father. I was not rebellious. I was not disobedient. And God could use me in looking verse 6.

And I gave my back to the smiteers, my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair. I hid not my face from shame and spitting. You think this is talking about Isaiah? Think it might be talking about Daniel? Think it’s talking about Lot? Job? Who do you think it’s talking about? So I’m talking about Jesus Christ. This is Jesus Christ. And look what he says there in verse verse nine. Behold, the Lord God will help me. Who is he that shall condemn me?

Lo, they all shall wax old as a garment. The moth shall eat them up talking about people. What’s it talking about here? They all shall wax old as a garment. Didn’t we read that somewhere else? Didn’t we just read that in the book of Hebrews in chapter one? It was God who made the world and it talks about they’re all going to wax old as a garment and the people but my son he stays the same yesterday, today, and forever.

He never ages. And when you are born of the Son of God what he had in his genes he gave to you. Same identical DNA. All born from the same incorruptible seed the Word of God itself. It’s awesome when you start thinking about these things. The way God puts it down here into his Word. It is awesome. Look down now in verse 5. Look in verse 5 of chapter 51. Verse 51. Chapter 51 verse 5. My righteousness is near.

In other words, it’s only 700 years away. My Son is coming. Jesus Christ is the righteousness of God. He says, my righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth. My arm shall judge the people. The aisles, Gentiles shall wait upon them and on mine arm shall they what? You read chapters 52 and 53 and talked about his arm and my holy arm is revealed. It’s talking about Jesus Christ, the power of God. And he knows what he says. This thing is awesome.

Look in verse 6. Lift up your eyes to the heavens. Look upon the earth beneath. For the heavens shall vanish away like smoke. The earth shall wax old like a garment. They shall dwell therein shall die in like manner. I don’t care how long you live, you’re all going to die. We’re all going to die. Everybody born going to die. The world is going to come to chaos one of these days. God says it’s going to have it all burned up.

That time is coming. But notice something he says here, this awesome. But my salvation, something that will not die, My salvation that will not wax old. My salvation shall be for how long? My salvation is for ever when you trust Christ as your savior. How long is your salvation good for? It is eternal security, eternal salvation. There is no other. Look what else he says. My righteousness shall not be abolished. What God gave you, he will never take it away from you.

When I trusted Christ as my Savior in 1960, I became a child of God. He gave me everlasting life. It will never be taken away from me. It can never be abolished, never can be altered. In other words, my salvation cannot be changed or altered by me or God. I’ve got his word on that. Look what he says in verse eight. For the moth shall eat them up like a garment. The worm shall eat them like wool. But my righteousness shall be, and you’ll unline that word, fall forever.

My salvation from generation to generation. It’s always in season. Anybody can be saved all over the world. Going to all the world and preach the gospel. He says, this is the light to them who said in darkness. I know I have eternal life. That knowledge, that’s light. That truth, that’s light. And a lot of people don’t know the truth. They don’t know crisis or savior. They don’t know they have eternal life. They don’t know where they’re going when they die.

And you and I that know this, this is the greatest news in all the world. Let me just close with you, you see this. But look what he says there in verse three of chapter 52. He said in verse 52, for thus saith the Lord ye have sold yourselves for none and ye shall be redeemed without what? Without money. You can be redeemed without money. That means you can’t buy it. You can be redeemed. That means to be bought back from the slave market of sin, Even though you’ve done all these bad things, you deserve to go to hell, what can you use to pay for all these sins without you having to pay it?

And that’s a death payment. It’d be done without money. And when you look over there in chapter 55, I just got to show you this in chapter 55. Look what he says in verse one, Ho, everyone that first death, come you to the waters and hear that half, no money. Come ye by and eat, ye come by wine and milk without money, without price. In other words, God says, I’ve got something from a whole world. They that sit in darkness shall see a great light, a great truth.

I’ve never seen, never understood before. Won’t cost you anything. It’s totally free. And you realize you have 53, and you have there the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. All this is about him. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing tool free.

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Thanks for joining us on Bibleline, and now a closing thought from Pastor Arnold. Friend, one day it will happen. The trumpet will sound, and we will be changed. Caught up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and every day. Believing that the Lord is coming soon, and just keep looking up.

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Bibleline Bibleline, here God’s Word on Bibleline, everywhere, every time. Here God’s truth on Bibleline. Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Ralph Yankee Arnold, pastor of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Clearly declaring the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the internet. Your regular prayers and monthly support make it possible for Bibleline to continue on the air. You can reach us toll-free at 1-800-576-3771. Online donations may be made by clicking on the donations link on the BibleLineMinistries.org homepage. We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s first part of this two-part message will be a blessing to you and your family.

Take your Bible and turn to the book of Genesis. The book of Genesis. We’ll go from generation to revolution. Genesis chapter 1. Genesis chapter 1 and verse 1. Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. I want to cover what I believe to be seven of the greatest facts in all the world. You know, you can live long enough and learn a lot of things. You go to all the colleges and universities and get degrees after your name. But if you don’t know these seven things, you missed it, you missed it.

So there’s seven of the greatest facts I believe that a man can know in this life. And if you look there in verse one, it says, in the beginning, God. In the beginning, God, it doesn’t spend any time trying to prove that there is a God, because the natural man knows that the world is here and he didn’t make it, and he knows it, no other man made it, but it’s here. When you consider all the power that’s in all the world, and all the universes, and all these things.

Whoever created it had to have that much power at the beginning without losing power. You see, if I had a hundred dollars and I gave you fifty, then I just gave up fifty dollars. So I’m less than what I had. But God can’t be less than what He ever was at any be given time. Now that blows my mind and it will take much to blow my mind. But sometimes I said and I think about things and my wife says, I don’t believe you or I don’t think like that.

But I do. But in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now to believe that is a great thing to believe because the world is here. I’ll take your Bible looking Isaiah 45, the book of Isaiah chapter 45, Isaiah and chapter 45. And chapter 45, look there in verse five. I am the Lord. there is none else. There is no God beside me. I girded thee, though thou hath not known me. I am God. I am the Lord.”

Now, that’s who he says he is, but look there in verse 22, look unto me be, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth? So is he telling everybody in the whole world that wants to be saved to look to him, for I am God, there is none else. There is only the one true and living God’s. Now some religions have a lot of God that are subject to the main God. Well, we believe there’s one God.

I’ve often wondered in my Christian life, since I’ve trusted Christ as my Savior and I’m going to heaven when I die, I wondered how much am I like God? How much am I like God? And I thought, and I thought… And I thought, and I had to stop thinking, I couldn’t think of too many ways that me and God was really alike. So I thought, I wonder in what ways am I not like God? Boy did I come up with a lot.

The ways in which I am not like God. Now we know that God is infinite, and I’m a finite individual. It means that I am limited and he is unlimited. Isn’t that a wonderful thing to know about God? God is infinite. He is unlimited. Unlimited in what? Well, just about everything. He only has chosen to limit himself in any area that he is limited. I’ve thought about, you know, if you could go as far as you can go in this world, in the universe as far as the telescopes can take you.

And to the end of the galaxies, what else is there on the other side of it? If there’s nothing on the other side, did we come to the end of something? And if God is infinite, is there no end to it? That’s hard for me to I’ve also thought about here’s God, and God has always been. He has no beginning. He has no ending. He is forever. Well what about man? When did I first come into his mind? Or have I always been in his mind?

That would blow your mind. You mean there’s a time when God did not know me? And now he does? Well, if he’s God, then he would have always known me. Am I as old as God in the mind of God? You say, you’re messing with my mind. I know. But it shows you how little we really know. You know the Bible talks about immortality. immortality. The Bible makes his statement and I want you to see this verse. Look over there in 1 Timothy chapter 6.

1 Timothy and chapter 6. 1 Timothy chapter 6. Let’s just look there in verse 15, which in his times he shall show who is the blessed and only potentate. That means the sovereign, the supreme sovereign. Nobody over him. Nobody’s over him. The king of kings and Lord of lords, verse 16. And you ought to underline the second word there who only, only had immortality. Dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto whom no man has seen nor can see to whom be honor and power everlasting?

Maybe sounds like God is God. And if you were going to describe God, you would have to say, well, he’s always been. We said, well, who made God? You ever thought about that? Well, whoever made God then would have been God. Well, who made him? Well, whoever made him. So otherwise you had to keep going back and back and, or God never had a beginning. And he’s always been, can you figure this out? In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

God did that. Now I believe that’s one of the greatest facts known to man is to know and to believe there is a God. Now the Bible says that God only hath immortality. In the words he has no beginning, no ending. Immortally, he’s not subject to death. We talk about mankind, we are mortal. Means we’re subject to die. And because of that, we have limitations. We had a beginning and we have an ending in time concerning you and I.

Mankind is very limited. We don’t know how long we’re going to live, but God will always be. You and I, we come and we go. We’re here today and gone tomorrow. It’s wonderful to try to think upon some of these things. The Bible talks about God, how he is omnipresent. Unnipresent. That means being everywhere. All at the same time. Try it. Have you really understood how much you and I are not like God? Are we immortal? No, we’re immortal.

We’re going to die. We have limitations. He has none. He is on my present. I mean, he can be everywhere all at the same time. Not just the ability to be everywhere or anywhere, but everywhere at the same time. He says, if you were to climb into heaven, he said, well, God’s there. Climb into hell. God’s there. Where can you go where there is no God? God is God and God is real. God has a purpose. Now when you talk about you and I, how finite we are, how limited we really are.

You’re heard about the omniscience of God. In other words, the wisdom of God. Talk about the knowledge of God. Not only that he knows everything, He is so wise and that there’s no one wiser than God. Nobody wiser than God. I told him in Ranch One Night, I thought about, I’d love to be the wisest man that ever lived. Solomon’s already got that. I’d love to be the strongest man that’s ever lived. That’s Samson already doesn’t beat me on air.

Surely there’s something that I can do. I want to be the biggest fool that the world has ever known. Hey, I bet that’s still open. I want to find something that I will be different, unique in, you know? And the Bible says a fool has said in his heart there is no God. I really don’t want to be that kind of a fool. The Bible talks about a man who had the ability to make great wealth. I’ll tear down these barns and build me some bigger barns and say to my soul, soul, they’ll have much goods.

Eat, drink, and then be merry for tomorrow we diet. Diet. And God says, this night, thou fool, thy soul shall be required of thee. I don’t want to be that kind of a fool. But when I read in the book of 1 Corinthians in chapter 4, where the Apostle Paul was talking about how that God has set forth us, the apostles last, how that we’re the the off scouring of the world that despised the garbage of the world. He says we are fools for Christ’s sake.

I said I can head on that. I want to be a fool for Christ. In fact, in case I want to be the biggest fool the world has ever known for Christ’s sake. In the eyes of the world they may think you’re foolish for trusting Jesus Christ. Believe in a God that you cannot see. Believe in a person that came into the world from out of space and paid for the sins of the whole world and will give you eternal life as a gift, they may think you’re a fool.

So I guess if I’m going to be one, I might would just go all the way and be the biggest fool I could be. I’ve been told by some that just to serve a Lord, you ain’t you’re a fool. You’re throwing away your life. But Christ says if I will lose my life for His sake, I will save it. I’m going to take that risk. If there is a risk, I’ll take that chance. But I don’t want to be like millions and millions millions of people who live and die and are real fools.

I’d rather be a fool for Christ’s thing. You know the Bible says in the book of Psalms 139th. I taught it one night. Talking about how that God is everywhere and He’s everywhere at the same time. You and I are limited to the sole body of flesh were prisoners, bars of bones that hold my soul so limited. And as we get older, we find out that the body is harder and more difficult to move around. Have you noticed any of that?

And sometimes it don’t want to go. I woke up one morning and I said, body, get up and it says I will not. I said, get out of this bed. He says, I’m not moving. Can you believe it? My body almost won. It was so easy to stay there. Have you ever had a fight with the covers and lose? It’s a wonderful thing to know that yes, I do have some things I can do, but I am limited. So in the eyes of God, I am not much like God.

I am more not like God. When you look at me and I look at you, because there’s so many things that we do. Is God perfect? Do you live perfectly? God never does anything wrong. Do you ever do anything wrong? Just once in a while, huh? A little here, a little there. But He is all wise. He knows everything. Jesus Christ, when He was here, He says that Christ, the wisdom of God, the righteousness of God, He is the wisdom of God.

The book of Proverbs talked about searching for this wisdom as a man would search for hidden gold or silver, that the wisdom of God can make a man very wise. And so the Word of God is the mind of God on paper and how wise we could be if we only believed and looked at the Word. Now, the Bible says that God is omnipotent. It means that He has all power. If he has all power, I mean, there’s nothing God cannot do.

He is so powerful, so great. He has limited himself only when he chose to limit himself. Can you do everything? No, you can’t. Can you accomplish everything you want? No, you can’t. Regardless of what you have been able to do, when you look in that mirror, you’re still just a man, man, or just a woman. You’re nothing more than a man. There’s God. You ain’t God and I’m not God. And we will learn a great lesson if we’ll understand that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, not man.

God did it. And that there is a true and living God. And I don’t believe that I’m a fool, maybe in the eyes of the world. But the second thing I want you to give is this. God created man. God. Second thing, God made man. He formed him out of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. a living soul and the Word of God tells us that God made the man. The man did not make himself.

Man did not get here by the process of evolution. God holds man responsible. God holds us accountable. So there is a God, and everybody needs to know that. God made the man, everybody needs to understand that. God holds the man responsible, accountable, because He says there is going to be a judgment. And if there’s going to be a judgment, every man shall die. After this the judgment, what’s the purpose of a judgment? of a judgment? Is there something that God required of the man that God is going to hold the man accountable for?

What’s the purpose of a judgment? Is something right? Is something wrong? Is it because something that I said? Is it something that I did? Is it something that I thought? What’s he gonna hold me accountable for? Every idle word, every deed, every thought? All of my actions. It means that if God is God and God made the man and God’s going to hold the man responsible, and you and I would be very wise to believe that. Because it makes a difference on what we do with our lives.

Just believe in the simple basic things. I think after a while when we get away from the things of the Lord, things seem to be running together. Life gets complicated. The economy’s sour. Your health goes. Your money goes. The security in the world goes. And you don’t know what’s going on. And you lose sight of the most important things. See, the most important thing in your life is not the provision of all those things. things, because sooner or later they’re going to die anyway, right?

One of these days you’re leaving here, because it’s appointed into every man who wants to die after that, the judgment. So there is accountability, things that will have to count to the Lord for him. You know One of the greatest things in all the world is to believe that this God that made the man that holds him accountable wrote a book. Have you realized what the world would be like? Life would be like if there was no Bible. If this Bible did not exist, what would this world be like?

What would people really believe? You know, the truth of this book is the restraint upon a man’s sinful nature. But who’s to say he has a sinful nature? It would just be our instinct. We’d be no different than animals. It’s just the west the way we are. And that would never change. But isn’t it wonderful to know what God says about everything? It’s all in this book. This book tells us who we are, where we came from, what we’re doing here, where we’re going.

You see, God wrote a book, and that’s why we call this the Word of God. It’s called Bible, bibblows, but it’s a book written by God. It’s divine. It’s inspired. We believe this every word to be the word of God. And we look to it, we read it, and we trust it. So God has given to us a book. And he says that all scripture is given by inspiration of God. Means that it’s God breathed. Now I talk about that for a long time if I wanted to.

But I think you get the point. If we have the Word of God, then we have the mind of God on paper. So as we read the book, we’re putting the mind of God into our minds. And it says, be not conformed to this world, but be it transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove or discover. Where is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God? So that’s why God is given to us His Word.

His Word reveals His will. And the man that knows the Word knows the will of God. The man that does not know the Word does not know His will. Therefore a man who does not know the Word doesn’t know the will and he cannot know the way. So God has given to us the answers that we’re seeking. When you study the book of Job and he finds out that what is man and how that God gave him the right to life.

And if a man die, shall he live again? And what happens to him? Where did he go? And how can a man be just with God? Well, when Christ came, He answered all of those questions when a man dies, where does he go? There’s only two places, heaven and hell. And it’s good for you and I to know the difference between the two. So as we live life, we have a little bit of heaven here and a little bit of hell here, but that is not heaven and that is not hell.

But we have a little bit of things that we enjoy and a few things that we don’t enjoy. To help us to be wise because we do not want to go to a place that is pain forever. But to go to a place that is joy forever, if there was none of that in this life, you and I would not know the difference between joy or pain. Therefore, we will not be able to make a wise decision. Aren’t you glad for a little joy in life and a little pain?

Because that’s how we learn. But the Bible says that he is infinite. No limitation. I am so much not like God, the whole human race. And yet, the Bible says that God created man in his image. Something must have gone wrong. Something must have gone wrong. Well the word of God tells us what went wrong. Man sinned against God. And because of that, sin separated us from God. Why? Because we were not like God anymore. To be Godly is to be like God.

To be ungodly is not to be like God. And so you and I with our sinful natures causes us to do and to think and to say and to believe things that are not like God. So God gave us a book. great thing for us to realize is that God gave us His Son. And of all the things that a man may know, and it doesn’t matter if you know how to get a man to the moon or the Mars, but you can’t get him to heaven, you’re still missed out.

And there’s a lot of people with a lot of wisdom and knowledge of the world, but they They don’t know the simple, basic things that God has given to us and what God wants us to know. So yes, I believe there’s a God. And I believe that God made man. And I believe God holds man responsible, accountable. So he gave us his word so that we would know just how much God expects. What’s the purpose of all of this?

And I believe it’s all revealed in his word, and that you and I, because of sin, God wants us to know how much God loves us. And God found a way to show you and I just how much He loves us. By doing something for us, no one else could do. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. Part 2 of this teaching will conclude with tomorrow’s broadcast.

If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll-free 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. To listen to today’s message again or to obtain a free download of any of our Bible line programs, just go to our homepage at BibleLineMinistries.org and click on the Radio Broadcast link. If you are in the area, we welcome you to visit us. The address for Calvary Community Church is 4811 George Road, Tampa, Florida, 33634.

Our Sunday morning services begin at 10-30 and at 6 o’clock on Sunday evening. Live broadcast of our services may be seen by clicking on the Calvary Community Church link at BibleLineMinistries.org. Thanks for joining us on Bibleline, and now a closing thought from Pastor Arnold. friend one day it will happen the trumpet will sound and we will be changed caught up to meet the Lord in the air so live today and every day believing that the Lord is coming soon and just keep looking up

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Bibleline Bibleline, here God’s Word on Bibleline, everywhere, every time. Here God’s truth on Bibleline. Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Ralph Yankee Arnold, pastor of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Clearly declaring the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the internet. Your regular prayers and monthly support make it possible for a Bibleline to continue on the air. You can reach us toll free at 1-800-576-3771. Online donations may be made by clicking on the donations link on the BibleLineMinistries.org homepage.

We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s concluding message of this teaching will be a blessing to you and your family. It’s a wonderful thing to know that, yes, I do have some things I can do, but I am limited. So in the eyes of God, I am not much like God. I am more not like God. When you look at me and I look at you, because there’s so many things that we do, is God perfect?

Do you live perfectly? God never does anything wrong. Do you ever do anything wrong? Just once in a while, huh? A little here and a little there. But he is all wise. He knows everything. Jesus Christ, when he was here, he says that Christ, the wisdom of God, the righteousness of God, he is the wisdom of God. The book of Proverbs talk about searching for this wisdom as a man would search for hidden gold or silver, that the wisdom of God can make a man very wise.

And so the word of God is the mind of God on paper and how wise we could be if we only believed and looked at the word. Now, the Bible says that God is omnipotent. It means that he has all power. If he has all power, I mean there’s nothing God cannot do. He is so powerful, so great. He has limited himself only when he chose to limit himself. Can you do everything? No, you can’t. Can you accomplish everything you want?

No, you can’t. Regardless of what you have been able to do, when you look in that mirror, you’re still just a man or just a woman. You’re nothing more than a man. There’s God. You ain’t God and I’m not God. And we will learn a great lesson if we’ll understand that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, not man. God did it. And that there is a true and living God. And I don’t believe that I’m a fool.

in the eyes of the world. But the second thing I want you to give is this. God created man. God. Second thing. God made man. He formed him out of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul. And the word of God tells us that God made the man. The man did not make himself. Man did not get here by the process of evolution. God holds man responsible.

God holds us accountable. So there is a God, and everybody needs to know that. God made the man. Everybody needs to understand that. That holds the man responsible accountable. Because he says there is going to be a judgment. And if there’s going to be a judgment, every man shall die. After this the judgment, what’s the purpose of a judgment? Is there something that God required of the man that God is going to hold the man accountable for? the purpose of a judgment.

Is something right? Is something wrong? Is it because something that I said? Is it something that I did? Is it something that I thought? What’s he gonna hold me accountable for? Every idle word, every deed, every thought, all of my actions. It means that if God is God and God made the man and God’s gonna hold the man responsible, and you and I would be very wise to believe that. because it makes a difference on what we do with our lives.

Just believe in the simple basic things. I think after a while when we get away from the things of the Lord, things seem to be running together. Life gets complicated. The economy’s sour. Your health goes. Your money goes. The security in the world goes. And you don’t know what’s going on. sight of the most important things. See, the most important thing in your life is not the provision of all those things, because sooner or later, they’re going to die anyway, right?

One of these days you’re leaving here, because it’s appointed in that every man wants to die after that, the judgment. So there is accountability, things that won’t have to count to the Lord for him. You know one of the greatest things in all the world is to believe that this God that made the man that holds him accountable, wrote a book. Have you realized what the world would be like? Life would be like if there was no Bible. If this Bible did not exist, What would this world be like?

What would people really believe? Do you know the truth of this book is the restraint upon a man’s sinful nature. But who’s to say he has a sinful nature? It would just be our instinct. We’d be no different than animals. It’s just the west the way we are. And that would never change. But isn’t it wonderful to know what God says about everything? all in this book. This book tells us who we are, where we came from, what we’re doing here, where we’re going.

You see, God wrote a book. And that’s why we call this the Word of God. It’s called Bible, biblose, but it’s a book written by God. It’s divine, it’s inspired, We believe this every word to be the Word of God. And we look to it, we read it, we trust it. So God has given to us a book. And he says that all scripture is given by inspiration of God. Means that it’s God-breathed. Now I talk about that for a long time if I wanted to.

But I think you get the point. If we have the Word of God, then we have the mind of God on paper. So as we read the book, we’re putting the mind of God into our minds. And it says, be not conformed to this world, but be it transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove or discover. What is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. So that’s why God has given to us His Word.

His Word reveals His will. And the man that knows the Word knows the will of God. The man that does not know the Word does not know His will. Therefore a man who does not know the Word doesn’t know the will and he cannot know the way. So God has given to us the answers that we’re seeking. When you You studied the book of Job and he finds out that what is man and how that God gave him the right to life.

And if a man die shall he live again? And what happens to him? And where did he go? And how can a man be just with God? So when Christ came, He answered all of those questions when a man dies, where does he go? There’s only two places, heaven and hell, and it’s good for you and I to know the difference between the two. So as we live life, we have a little bit of heaven here and a little bit of hell here, but that is not heaven and that is not hell.

But we have a little bit of things that we enjoy and a few things that we don’t enjoy. To help us to be wise, because we do not want to go to a place that is pain forever. But to go to a place that is joy forever. If there was none of that in this life, you and I would not know the difference between joy or pain. Therefore we will not be able to make a wise decision. Aren’t you glad for a little joy in life and a little pain?

Because that’s how we learn. But the Bible says that he is infinite, no limitation. I am so much not like God, the whole human race. And yet, the Bible says that God created man in his image. Something must have gone wrong. Something must have gone wrong. Well the word of God tells us what went wrong. Man sinned against God. And because of that sin separated us from God. Why? not like God anymore. To be Godly is to be like God.

To be ungodly is not to be like God. And so you and I with our sinful natures causes us to do and to think and to say and to believe things that are not like God. So God gave us a book. Another great thing for us to realize is that God gave us His Son. And of all the things that a man may know, and it doesn’t matter if you know how to get a man to the moon or the Mars, but you can’t get him to heaven, you’re still missed out.

And there’s a lot of people with a lot of wisdom and knowledge of the world, but they don’t know the simple, basic things that God has given to us. what God wants us to know. So yes, I believe there’s a God. And I believe that God made man. And I believe God holds man responsible, accountable. So he gave us his word so that we would know just how much God expects. What does he want? What’s the purpose of all of this.

And I believe it’s all revealed in his Word and that you and I, because of sin, God wants us to know how much God loves us. And God found a way to show you and I just how much He loves us. By doing something for us, no one else could do. By allowing us such limitations that we could not get out of the consequences. We were all going to die because of sin, and no man can deliver himself. No man can deliver another man.

We’re all condemned, and we were all going to hell. And so it was the perfect opportunity for God to show to us How much God loves us. So Christ coming into the world was God’s definition of love. Because you take away Christ and you and I live in this world have no way of knowing whether God loves us or not. We may know about the power of God and believe in the omniscience of God and the omnipotence of God and everything about that, but you don’t know God.

And you would not know that God was a God of love, a God of compassion, a God of forgiveness, a God of hate, of sin. You see, our knowledge of God would be so limited. So what God did was make it known. And he says that God has manifested to us. The love of God is manifested. It means revealed by what He did through His Son. So God sent His Son into the world to make a payment for all the sins of the world that you and I could simply by faith alone believe and have the free gift of everlasting life.

That’s because of how much God loves us. So God gave us the word so that we would know what God was doing. See, God wanted us to be able to live with Him for all eternity in a perfect place. Never to lose it. God wanted us to know what love was. And He wanted us to know that He loved us unconditionally. I don’t have to earn it. So he made it for salvation. Being saved would be a gift totally free.

And all I had to do is believe he did it for me. And God will save me and give me the free gift of eternal life. You see the other thing that all men need to understand is that all men are lost. Everybody’s lost. We have all gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way. That’s why everybody is so rebellious. That’s why wives don’t like to obey husbands and husbands don’t like to obey the Lord. This is why children don’t like to obey parents.

This is why we have a mess in society. Because so many are so rebellious. Nobody likes anybody telling me what I cannot do. So we all fight back and we argue. We fuss and we fume. All because all men are lost means all of us have an old sinful nature and we can’t go to heaven because of the sin. And yet God loves us. So yes, God is real. He made a man. And he made a man and he told him the man responsible.

And so the whole man responsible, he got to let a man know what was the expectation. So he gave us his word. And then gave us his son and given us his son, then all men need to know that everybody is lost. the last thing, the greatest thing I think. Because if all this is true, I’m so glad I know that God wants every man to be saved. God wants every man to be saved. That’s why he sent his son to down on the cross to pay for the sins of the whole world because God wants to save every man.

And he is not a respecter of persons. It means that God doesn’t love me more than Peter Amato. But he doesn’t love you anymore than me or anyone else. He loves us all the same. We sung a little song in Sunday School. Jesus loves the little children, all our children of the world, red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world. Jesus loves the little ones like me. Jesus loves the little ones like me.

Little ones like me, sat upon his knee. Jesus loves the little ones like me, me, me. Jesus loves the little ones like you. Jesus loves the little ones like you. Little ones like you. Jesus loves you too. Jesus loves the little ones like you, you, you, aren’t you glad? And He made salvation for everybody so that everybody can be saved. So those seven simple things that everybody I think in the world, they need to know that and believe that.

I’ll be honest with you. I believe it. I believe that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. I didn’t have anything to do with it. And I believe that God is infinite. He can do whatever he wants to do. But anything he can’t do, he chose that. He has limited himself. You see, God hates sin. God cannot sin. And the Bible says that God made the man. That means that’s where you came from. God made you.

And he’s going to hold you responsible. He’s going to hold you accountable. So you can do whatever you want to do. You can live any way you want. But you are going to be held accountable. You can get away with everything down here. can lie, steal, cheat, murder, and people get away with it. But God keeps the books on you and me. And we are going to face a perfect, righteous, holy God that knows everything. Nothing is hid from God.

And so God gave us a book, the Bible, so that we would know and understand the will of God. And we would know and understand why He had to send His Son to reveal to us how much He loved us. and made it possible for a man to be saved, all are lost, all can be saved. That’s why we do what we do. That’s why we give, we sacrifice. I’m thankful every time I get a phone call from Peter Amato that, hey, we had two trusts of the Lord and Ranch.

We had three trusts of the Lord and Ranch. We had one after Ranch. He just can’t stand it. He can’t stand it. And then I hear about others that lead somebody to the Lord and somebody talk to somebody and somebody talk to somebody I Don’t know if there’s a week that goes by that James ain’t talk to somebody in the hallway You don’t get any work done. He just talks to people about the Lord Now he’s a great soul winner Just way we get to heaven and see all those people that’s gonna be in heaven because somebody talked to them about the Lord But listen as you go through life a lot of things will make you sour and bitter But to serve the Lord faithfully, you’ve got to serve the Lord like you’ve never been hurt.

Serval or like you’ve never been hurt. Like nobody’s ever said or done anything to hurt you at all. Because you see, those hurts that you can’t get over, they make you better. And then they make it cold and hard and brittle. And you want to stay soft and tender, pliable, or God can use you. God wants you to have compassion, forgiveness, love, and understanding. Can you handle it? You see, in all of this, when you trust Christ as your Savior, God begins a work in you to make you just like Him.

So can you think of some ways in which you are like the Lord since you’ve trusted Christ as your Savior? Have you allowed the word of God to conform you into the image of Christ or you’re more like Him than ever before? Do you have the forgiveness that God had, the compassion that He has, the care that He has? Think about it. Look up here just a moment. If you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior. It’s about time. It’s about time.

This end represents you and me. The wallet represents sin. We all have sin on us. Everybody has a sinful nature and because of that we sin. All these bad things that we do. And so God says we’re to be eternally separated from God. But God loves us and wants us to go to heaven. And to go to heaven you have to be perfect as righteous is God and none of us are perfect. None of us are righteous. We’ve all done things wrong.

And God says, you can’t earn eternal life. You can’t work your way to heaven. So no, you don’t have to give any money to go to heaven. You don’t have to change your life to go to heaven. You don’t have to join the church to go to heaven. But one thing you do have to do is this. You have to believe that you can’t earn it. If you want to go to heaven, you have to believe that you can’t earn it.

You have to believe that there’s nothing you can do to save yourself. If you believe that there’s something you can do to save yourself, then God can’t save you, and you can’t be saved. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord God in the flesh. He came into the world because he loves us. He hates our sin because it separates us from him. So Jesus Christ, who had no sin, didn’t have to die. But He took our sins, paid for them on the cross, came back from the dead.

people have heard this all their life. But the reason he did this is so that you and I wouldn’t have to. He paid for all of my sins so that I don’t have to pay for my sins. Make sense? All I have to do is believe he did it for me. And God says, if I believe he did it for me, then I have a payment for all of my sins. If I’ve got a payment for all of my sins, there’s no sin to condemn me.

There’s no sin for me to pay for in hell. Because he, I believe he paid for it, but you say, well, I don’t believe that. Well, then that payment’s not put to your account. And you’re still lost. And you’re going to be judged one day. And God says, be not found having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness, which is of God by faith. And you’re going to be found naked.

You won’t have His righteousness. You see, I’m going to heaven whenever I die, because 50 years ago, sitting in a little old living room, I knew I was a sinner. I knew I wasn’t good enough to go to heaven. I knew I wasn’t perfect. Her Christ, He died for me. So I accepted Him as my Savior, and God gave me His a free gift everlasting life. And I’m going to heaven on what Christ did. Well, that’s good news. You know it sounds just as sweet today as it did 50 years ago.

You know if he saved me 50 years ago and gave me eternal life, just what I have today? Eternal life. And 50 years from now I’ll still have it. I can’t lose it. It tells us it was given to me as a gift. Totally free. Let’s pray, shall we? If you’re here this morning and you’ve never trusted Christ as your savior, right where you are, I’m not going to have you stand up and come forward. there’s nothing for you to sign.

Don’t want anything from you. I just want you to receive something. I want you to receive Jesus Christ as your Savior. I want you to believe that He died and paid for everything that you have ever done. And will you trust Him? Would you believe it? God loves you. Believe that. He paid for all of your sins. Believe it. He said, if you’d trust Him to take you to heaven when you die, He would give eternal life as a free gift.

Would you believe that? I did. Made sense to me. So his bow and I close and no one looking around, if you say, yes, I will trust Christ as my Savior this morning and preach out like for you to pray for me. Friend, would you just slip your hand very quickly and put a rub back down? I’m not gonna have you forward, not gonna embarrass you, but right where you’re sitting. So that made sense to me. And I wanna be certain of going to heaven when I die.

And I’d like for you to pray for me. Just slip it up very quick, put a rub back down. Anyone at all? Our Father, we thank You again for Your blessings to us. Thank You for giving us Your Word, explaining all these things to us. We don’t even deserve that. And for someone bringing the gospel to us, we don’t deserve that either. For saving us and giving us a free gift of eternal life, we didn’t deserve that either. And then after we trust You, save You, give us the indwelling Holy Spirit.

We don’t deserve that either. To give us the opportunity to live for you this side of eternity is such a wonderful thing, and we don’t deserve that either. Lord, you have been good to us. It’s all by grace. Thank you for your lessons to us and for all that you’ve done. Bless each one hearing Christ and we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you are blessed by today’s message.

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your Bible and turn to the book of Genesis in chapter 1. We’re going to cover the entire Bible this morning. You laugh. When I was in school and I did go to school for some of you all that didn’t know that, I remember in say 7th, 8th grade or so where they would teach in us things that I think they’re still teaching in the school about evolution. I remember they talked to us about the Crow man young, the Heidelberg man, the Pitt the Cantapassie rekdis man, the Austro-Lepitthicane man.

And I learned all those words. And never remember the teacher telling us that this is what scientists tell us. And scientists, of course, they were evolutionists. And somewhere down the line, we had this common ancestor and we kind of broke off and you know the apes went one way and we went another way. But we had the common ancestor down there somewhere. Now my relatives, my song by the neck but not by the tail and I remember listening to this and thinking, am I understanding her correctly?

Because remember I wasn’t religious. I didn’t know the Lord. I didn’t go to church and thinking if what What she says is true, I came from a monkey, I came from a monkey. And I’d look in the mirror and say, no resemblance. Of course I was prejudiced. I’d ride home on the school bus and I’d look out on the hills and everybody’s talking to the bus but me, I’m in deep thought. You know, I’m going back a million years and I could see these eight men hitting their and wise over the head and dragging by the head and through the cave, you know.

And I could picture them on the hillside. I could see them. And I used to think, man, that sure would be nice to be there. Man, I love to live back then. Fighting off these great big monsters, you know, these big dinosaurs and all that stuff. It wasn’t long before I started hearing things about the Bible and whether or not it was true. I wanted to know the truth, and I know that I had to come from somewhere. I mean, here I am.

I didn’t make me. Kind of like these two boys that was in school, and they were always in trouble. They were always having to go to the principal’s office. I kind of liked myself. I spent so much time in the principal’s office. They thought I was on the faculty. But these two boys had to be called in because there’s nothing but trouble. And the principal thought, I need to put the fear of God in these kids. So they’re sitting there and he’s talking to them about different things and of course the kids deny everything.

He says, do you fear God? Naturality talked to him some more and he said, do you know where God is? He talked to him a little bit more. Do you know where God is? He finally dismissed the boys and they started to cross the park in London. He says, whew, man, we’re really in trouble now. He says, I know it. God’s missing and they think we did it. Some people think God’s missing and we gotta find God. Like I’m supposed to reach up there and get ahold of God and bring him down here and say, but there he is.

Well, I don’t have any miracles. Somebody who doesn’t want to believe in God, I can’t change your mind. If you want to believe in God, I can’t change your mind. You will believe what you really want to believe. Now here in the book of Genesis it makes the statement, in the beginning there was a blob of protoplasm floating around in the use of an owl. And all of a sudden there was a big bang, bang! And life began. Is that what your Bible says?

No, my Bible says, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. It’s just God, it doesn’t go into an explanation of who’s God. It just tells you He did it. God, in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now you know what? I believe that. I really do. Take your Bible and turn to the book of Colossians in chapter 1, the book of Colossians. The book of Colossians in chapter 1, and look there in verse 15.

Now we know that the world is here. Now the world was either made by somebody or somebody made it. It was either made by somebody, or I guess you should say it made itself. Now if the world is here and there There is no God. There’s nobody that can take credit for making it. Then it had to create itself. Does that sound logical? Does that sound reasonable? To a reasonable thinking man. That the world created itself. Have you ever seen anything create itself?

You never have. Why would you start now? Just because some Lulu in a school says there’s no God. and that you were just an accident that you might have been. But you are here. Did I say that? Look at verse 15, who is the image of the invisible God talking about Jesus Christ, the firstborn who is the architect of creation. For by Him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth. Well it says in Genesis chapter 1, God created the heavens and the earth.

Here it’s saying Jesus Christ created. Everything has been made. Heaven or visible, invisible. Whether there be thrones or dominions or principalities or607, get that all things were created by Him and for Him. So if you ever wondered who did it, I got the answer. He did it. God created the heavens and the earth. In the first Peter chapter 3, it talks about the people saying, well all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. Doesn’t say evolution.

It was created. God created the heavens and the earth. The Bible says that He created man. And I’ve told you this before, but whenever God was able to take the dust of the earth and breathed into the man’s nostle he formed a body and man became a living soul. Well, their scientists today think they can duplicate what God has done. They can make a man. They can clone a man. So they told God, we don’t need you anymore because we can make a man too.

God says, let’s have a contest. So God says, okay, we’ll have a contest. So he took some more dirt and he made another man And just like he did the first time. So the evolutionists got ready and they’re Santa, they got ready to make their man. So they took some dirt and God says, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, get your own dirt, get your own dirt. Well, we can clone a man from what? Nothing? Try it.

They can’t do what God did. God created the heavens and the earth. And he says here in verse 17, And he is, get it before all things. And by him, all things consist or held together. God doesn’t spend much time arguing with a fool. He states it, and that’s it. I don’t spend much time arguing with the fools either. Because the Bible says a fool have said in his heart, there is no God. So when a man says there is no God, he is a fool.

And I don’t really like to spend a lot of my time arguing with a fool. Now somebody who really wants to know truth and they’re searching, that’s one thing. But some people are just too smart for their own good. Now we say that a belief in God, we call it theism, means that I believe In God, atheism don’t believe in God. The world is here. Either evolution is true and the world made itself or somebody made it. And since I believe in God, I can believe that God did it.

And because I have faith and the evolutionist has faith. He has the belief that it came from whatever. He hasn’t had it in the story. with. At least I have faith in something that was here that claims to have done it. So I ought to at least listen to the testimony of the one who claims to have been here. And that was God. So it’s good that sometimes let God speak. See what he says. What are the evidences that God would use to convince a person that he is for real, that he really did do it?

And I think those those things are revealed. God has given to us His Word and the world. So with the world, we believe that we can use reason. The power of a man’s mind is conscious to think because of what he sees. There must be a God. And so by the very nature of the fact that the world here, God has given to us a world that reveals there must be a God. And God has given to us His Word by revelation.

So one is by reason, one is by revelation, where God reveals to us in His Word what God hath done. So if God made the world and God made the Word, then the world and the Word ought to agree, and they do. When it doesn’t agree, it’s because there’s false science that doesn’t agree with true science. True science and the Bible agree perfectly. We call that biblical theism means that I believe what God says from the Bible. And I believe in naturalism, or I should say, is naturalistic theism because it deals with the world that God has made.

See in nature itself and see in the laws, or nature’s laws as we call them. We know that somebody had to make all these things and it didn’t just happen. So whenever you want to start at the very beginning, where would you really start? Back there where there’s a lot of protoplasm floating around in the ooze of the Nile. Suppose of this year, big bang theory and the gases came together. Okay, where do gases come from? Well, they don’t know.

Were they there? Oh, no. How do they know that’s why I started? Well, they don’t know. So they’re guessing that’s why it’s called a theory. It’s not fact. Evolution is not a fact. It’s never happened, never will happen. It is not happening. There is no such thing as evolution. Now when we talk about the evolution of the telephone, the evolution of the car See this evolution, it is not. It’s the development of a telephone. The development of an automobile did the telephone create itself?

And when it got into a different did it do it all by itself? Then that’s not evolution. There is a man behind it, an idea, somebody designing. It didn’t happen by itself. It wasn’t random chance. It was done with a design in mind. There’s a purpose. Now, won’t you take your Bible looking the book of John chapter 1, the Gospel of John and chapter 1. John chapter 1, just look what God said in His Word. And John chapter 1 says, in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.

Now if you have a Bible that says anything else, throw it away. Throw it away. If it says, He was A God, throw it away, throw it in trash. That is not the Bible. That’s a translation of somebody who has an ulterior motive in order to make money by copyrighting it, and that’s not in the book. I just thought I thought that that there was no extra charge. Now get it. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him and without Him was not anything made that was made.

This time I’m at the Lord. And look what he says here in verse 10. He was in the world. And the world was made by him and the world knew him not God, made the world, and then came into the world and took upon flesh. And it says in verse 14 where it makes the same and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Jesus Christ created the heavens and the earth. Jesus Christ in the beginning it was God and He came into the world that He made and took upon flesh. Jesus Christ is God. Now if people do not believe that, I can’t help that, but I believe it. There was a time when I didn’t know any of this, but there’s something inside of you that says, you know, this is truth, this is truth, this is truth, and I can’t make people believe truth.

Even God doesn’t make people believe the truth. God will allow a person to believe a lie. So many times, whether you want to do right depends upon what kind of a God you have or not. And so your morality in many cases dictate your theology. You’ll We’ll figure that out after a while. But God created the world. Now the world is here. And let’s go back to the beginning. Back to the beginning when there wasn’t anything. Now if I believe that in the beginning God, in evolutionist in the beginning zero, now which requires a greater miracle?

nothing to create something or for somebody to create something, which is easier. There’s require a greater faith, requires a greater, greater miracle than the miracle of creation because at least we believe there’s a create per that created it. They believe it happened all by itself. Now that taxes my imagination that somebody could think I’d be so naive is to believe that slop. And that’s what it is. That’s humanism. Because see, if you don’t believe in God, you’ve got to explain where you came from.

Well, if there is no God, then there’s no law giver. There’s no designer. There’s no planner. There’s no life-giving force. Or explain it. Here we where do we come from? And they have no answers. They have no answers. They go on nothing but a little geological circle. And the biggest thing they have in their favorite they think is these bones that they find. Bones. Bones. They can do more than what God did. God at least took dirt from the ground and formed a body and breathed in his life the breath of life and name him a living soul but now evolutionists can take the tooth of a wild pig and call it the Nebraska man and make a whole family and put it into the textbooks.

What if he’s me? I will swallow. Oh and many people do. Take your Bible and turn to the the book of Job, the book of Job, all the way back there in the Old Testament. Job chapter 38, it’s easier to believe that somebody made this world. You say, why? Because it’s here, I didn’t make it, did you make it? Well, if I didn’t do it, you didn’t do it, what somebody had to? You said, well, it made itself. Have you ever seen anything make itself?

No. Why How would you believe that? What would be the evidence that you would use as the foundation for your faith? Here in Job in chapter 38, I want you to look there in verse 3. He says, good up now, by loins, like a man. In other words, when he sends act like a man. For I will demand of thee and answer thou me guts. And I got a couple of questions I want to ask to Job. He says, where was thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?

Declare if thou hath understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? What holds the earth together? What holds everything together instead of it flying off into the space? What holds all these, you know, the orbits of the sun and the moon and the stars and everything, the earth? What holds everything together? He said, where were you when I did all of that? Okay. At least we have the testimony of an eyewitness.

And that’s the law. So as we read the evidence, we ought to at least consider it. And whenever you consider it, when you come up with one conclusion, God created the heavens and the earth. Only a fool would believe otherwise. A person that’s something’s wrong upstairs, they can’t see it and understand it. They all try to make you think Christians are the ones that are uneducated, living in the dark ages, believe it or not, old book. Yeah you disprove this old book, double dog barrier, they can’t do it.

The book is true, historically, scientifically, prophetically, medically. The book is God’s Word, and this is true as the world. And the world gives evidence that there is a God, and so does the Word, and they both work together. One by reason, one by revelation, and we can know and understand it. So we go back to the very beginning, and there has to be something that calls it to but let’s just pretend for a moment. Because they work on the premise that everything just gets better and better and better and better and better and better.

You know it was a little one sale to me when they did multiply and blah blah blah and then here we are. Let’s just pretend that this little blob of protoplasm, whatever it might be, wants to develop something wonderful like an eye. An eye. I’ve got one, but I got two. Y’all have two, I guess. My mom, I had one in the back of her head. She could see everything I ever did. But you have an eye. Now where did this eye come from?

A light sensitive spot like a freckle. I saw a girl one time. She could have eyeballs all over her face. She had freckles all over. But I don’t believe that. Aren’t you glad that those two little freckles happened to develop right there? What if they had developed in your seat in your pants every time you sit on you go blind? But you think about this. You have the eye. Where does the eye come from? Well remember in evolution there’s no purpose, no plan, no design because that means a purpose, somebody got a plan, a planner, a designer, a logist, but there’s no, it just happened.

How do you know to develop an eyeball that has no purpose if there’s no light waves. If there’s no light waves, you can’t, this has no purpose. Well, who came first? It’s stupid how that something without a brain could develop an eye and hear all of you are here with a brain and you can’t do it. But something without a brain did. Explain that. See, that’s why every step in evolution requires a greater miracle than God created. Because there’s a, it’s impossible.

Impossible. Can you happen? Take your Bible and look into book of Psalms 94. Psalms 94. 94th Psalm 94. Psalms 94. And look in verse 8. Understand Yibruch among the people and Yifu’s. When will you be wise? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see? In other words, the Word of God tells us, God said, I made the eye and I made the ear. Well, of course, He made the light waves and He made the sound waves.

So we have evidence that this is true because how is a blob of protoplasm without a brain going to develop an eye and yet you doesn’t even know ahead of time that there’s light. How does they even know there’s something to see? Well it would come first. It’s impossible. Well what about the ear? What came first? The ear or sound waves? How does it know there’s something to hear? There’s no brain. How can something that has no ability whatsoever can create something as wonderful as the eye or the ear.

Just those two things along defeats evolution. So it just happened. No, it doesn’t just happen. Have you ever seen a new ear come along? Nothing just the ear. How long has it been since you woke up in the morning and you look on the countertop and let me know a new eye disappeared? Well, if it happened billions of years ago, how come we still don’t see them happening today? See, I have an inquiry mine and I want to know what demands the faith of an evolutionist because the only only way to do it is to alternative is God.

The only alternative is God. And if there is a God, then there’s creation. If there’s creation, then I’m responsible. And they don’t want the responsibility. They want to live like an animal. I think for a moment. There is no God. There’s no Creator. we are animals. You are an animal if there is no God. You’re just the highest form of life on some evolutionary ladder. And if there is no God, then what is right and what is wrong? Everything’s a dirty grace.

Whatever you want, power will make right. And this This is why some people will live like an animal and they think like one. And it doesn’t matter what they do or who they do it to because there’s nothing to restrain them so people can do whatever they want to do and control everybody else if they want to, murder anybody they want to. But I happen to believe that there is a God. How would you explain the immaterial part of man?

You know the soul of man or the life that a man has. His emotions that he has, his will, his intellect. Things you can’t touch, put your finger on it. Where did it come from? Am I supposed to believe that four gases developed this? You see there’s a few laws. One is called the law of biogenesis. The law of biogenesis state that life must come from life and exist on previous life. That’s a law. Life must come from life.

Nothing comes that’s alive from something that did not live. You are here because you came from life and we have a problem. You see, they can’t break or cross the bridge, the barrier between non-life and life. can’t do it. And yet we’re supposed to believe that’s where we came from. They can’t do it today and they’re the highest on the evolutionary ladder and the scientists today cannot produce life from non-life. Can’t do it. They talk about how can we can split the DNA and all these wonderful things that are able to do.

Yeah, take it all away. Now produce one. You see what it’s called the survival of the fittest. It’s not the survival of the fittest. It’s the arrival of the fittest. How did it arrive? I’m not talking about where they can shuffle the genetic factor within the chromosomes and all that and try to create. That’s what’s already here. But they are not creating anything. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

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Caught up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon, and just keep looking up.